Performance, Diversity and National Identity Evidence from Association football

Jorge Tovar

No 16820, Documentos CEDE from Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE

Abstract: The increasing national diversity of co-workers has no consensus on its impact on performance. Using a team’s predominant nationality as proxy for national diversity and national identity, there is robust evidence that it affects performance. Detailed worker-level data from a highly globalized industry, association football, shows a non-linear relationship between performance and the predominant nationality of a team’s roster. As the number of members from the predominant nationality increase, performance declines. However, beyond a threshold level, performance rises. It implies that performance benefits from national diversity when the predominant nationality is small and from national identity when it is large.

Keywords: National Identity; National Diversity; Team Performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 M14 Z21 Z22 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 41
Date: 2018-09-25
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Journal Article: PERFORMANCE, DIVERSITY AND NATIONAL IDENTITY EVIDENCE FROM ASSOCIATION FOOTBALL (2020)
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