Top Team Diversity and Business Performance: Latent Class Analysis for Firms and Cities

Max Nathan

No 8462, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: A growing number of studies find linkages between workforce diversity and business performance, but key aspects of this relationship remain unclear. First, within the firm, the role of 'top team' demography on firm outcomes is surprisingly little understood. Second, urban location may amplify firm-level processes, but almost no studies test these firm-area interactions. I deploy English cross-sectional data to explore these issues, using latent class analysis to tackle firm-level heterogeneity. I find evidence of positive links in some firm classes, both linear and non-linear, and suggestive evidence that ethnic top team diversity is amplified in the London city-region.

Keywords: firm-level analysis; business performance; diversity; ethnicity; gender; cities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J15 L21 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2014-09
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-bec, nep-cse, nep-eff, nep-geo, nep-hrm, nep-sbm and nep-ure
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Published - Published in Environment and Planning A, 2016, 48 (12) 2462–2483

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