To gain a better understanding of the links between team diversity and team performance, FIM-HSG has recently extended its research on teams to the world of team sports. There are several advantages of experimenting with datasets drawn from team sports, such as greater access to detailed background information on team members and objectively observable performance metrics.
A paper entitled “International experiential diversity and performance at project organizations: The case of national football teams” by Winfried Ruigrok, Peder Greve, and Martin Engeler received the best paper award in the Sports as a Business track at the EURAM conference in Rome in 2010, and was recently published in the new journal Sport, Business and Management.