Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>This paper reports about a field experiment conducted to estimate the impact of the share of women in business teams on their performance. Teams consisting of undergraduate students in business studies start up a venture as part of their curriculum. The gender composition of teams is manipulated through the random assignment of students to teams. Teams with an equal gender mix perform better than male-dominated and female-dominated teams in terms of sales, profits and earnings per share. We explore various mechanisms and find that mutual monitoring is more intense in mixed teams than in homogeneous teams.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question How does gender composition of teams influence business performance? Sample Trial population and sample selection Teams of approximately 12 first year students of an international business programme. Team members are young and highly educated individuals that generally lack experience. Teams of women and men are comparable in terms of education and experience. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description Students enrolled in an entrepreneurship education program are randomly assigned to teams of different gender composition. The program consists in funding and running real businesses, the tasks include raising capital by issuing shares, producing and marketing products or services, among other. The results of the business ventures are compared at the end of the year. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method The baseline survey contains questions about individual characteristics and on personality traits, such as agreeableness, conscientiousness, extroversion, neuroticism, and openness to experience. The average age is approximately 19 years and 4 months, roughly two-thirds of the population lives with their parents, about one-third has some work experience, and over 30% have a father who is or was an entrepreneur. Twenty percent of the students are born abroad and about half of the students have at least one parent not born in the Netherlands. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Measures of business performance: sales, profits, and profits per share.</p> Results <p>Gender-balanced teams outperform teams dominated by men, with sales and profits increasing as the percentage of women in the team moves from 20% to 50%. Gender-balanced teams also outperform women-dominated teams, although this result is only suggestive given the low number of women-dominated teams in the study.</p> Intervention costs Not available. Cost benefit ratio Reference Hoogendoorn, S., Oosterbeek, H. and Van Praag, M., 2013. The impact of gender diversity on the performance of business teams: Evidence from a field experiment. Management Science, 59(7), pp.1514-1528. Citation for use in academic references
