International Management as Management of Diversity: Reconceptualizing Distance as Diversity

Grasslands of the World: Diversity, Management and Conservation

Features provide a comprehensive global overview of extent and diversity of grasslands. Analyzes how humans shaped grasslands through millennia of use and which role they play in present-day agriculture. Quantifies the role of grasslands as biodiversity hotspots as well as the drivers threatening these. Evaluates the ecosystem services grasslands provide e.g. in terms of soil protection and car...

The Impact of Top Management Team Diversity on Company Performance

This study aims to examine the impact of diversity among the members of top management team (TMT) on financial performance of manufacturing firms. Diversity components of the top management team were divided into two categories of managerial background variables (age, gender, background, education, work skills), and managerial areas (industrial and international). In addition, financial perform...

Diversity Management in International Supply Chains: Strategies for Effectiveness

Managing diversity is the hallmark of an international business. International organizations deal with diversity in multiple task environments: culture, communication, operating, technology and supply chain. International organizations are integrated with global and host country local economies and systems. They need to continuously improve the supply chain effectiveness of their global operati...

The Optimal Diversity Management Problem

In some industries, a certain part can be needed in a very large number of different configurations. This is the case, e.g., for the electrical wirings in European car factories. A given configuration can be replaced by a more complete, therefore more expensive, one. The diversity management problem consists of choosing an optimal set of some given number k of configurations that will be produc...

Culture as an individual process: Deficits of national cultural theories in management of cultural diversity