Work group diversity in professional football: an individual-level approach to the effects of diversity in organizations
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- dc.contributor.author Lago Peñas, Ignacio
- dc.contributor.author Lago Peñas, Carlos
- dc.contributor.author Lago Peñas, Santiago
- dc.date.accessioned 2023-04-20T06:19:12Z
- dc.date.available 2023-04-20T06:19:12Z
- dc.date.issued 2023
- dc.description.abstract Objective: Although there is a huge literature examining how diversity affects group performance, an important limitation is the lack of evidence at the employee level. This article tries to fill this gap. We focus on professional football given the high ethnic diversity of football squads, the nonexistence of language barriers to hire players, and the granularity of data. Methods: Relying on data from 1528 professional footballers joining a new club in the 2021–2022 season in five European countries, we run ordinary least squares cross-sectional regressions with standard errors clustered by club. Results: We find that ethnic backgrounds do not make a difference in the performance of professional football players in their new clubs. However, newcomer players with a different ethnic background than natives in their new clubs do better the younger they are and when subgroup imbalance in the squad is high. Conclusion: Our results support the approach integrating the social categorization and the information/decision-making perspectives. From the players’ recruitment or renovation perspective, our results can help managers and coaches to make correct recruitment decisions.
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- dc.identifier.citation Lago I, Lago-Peñas C, Lago-Peñas S. Work group diversity in professional football: an individual-level approach to the effects of diversity in organizations. Soc Sci Q. 2023;104(4):927-41. DOI: 10.1111/ssqu.13262
- dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/ssqu.13262
- dc.identifier.issn 0038-4941
- dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/56520
- dc.language.iso eng
- dc.publisher Wiley
- dc.relation.ispartof Social Science Quarterly. 2023;104(4):927-41.
- dc.relation.isreferencedby https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/Z8SUUR
- dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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- dc.subject.keyword cultural distance
- dc.subject.keyword ethnicity
- dc.subject.keyword football
- dc.subject.keyword organization
- dc.subject.keyword work diversity
- dc.title Work group diversity in professional football: an individual-level approach to the effects of diversity in organizations
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