In our paper, we explore the diversity-performance link in knowledge production and argue it to be the result of two …. In particular, we find a U-shaped relation between cultural diversity and performance in research groups from the … humanities & social sciences and a negative link between functional diversity and per-formance in research groups from the …

This chapter analyzes how one particular governance mechanism affects the performance of research teams. We look at an … performance is affected. We expect to observe two countervailing effects with changes in interdisciplinarity and …/or internationality: first, increased performance due to an increase in productive resources and a second, decreased performance due to …

performance. We use representative matched employer–employee panel data and correct for different sources of estimation biases. We … positive impact on firm performance. In contrast, companies that increase the share of apprentices in manufacturing occupations … face a negative impact on performance, however. These results shed a new light on the popular stylised fact that …

performance of German RTGs has not been evaluated as yet. In this paper, we undertake a first step in that direction and assess … the performance of German RTGs in two different disciplinary fields (humanities & social sciences vs. natural & life … publication and presen¬tation output. In our analysis of 86 German RTGs we are able to show that the performance of German RTGs …