Cultural Diversity and Conflict in Multicultural Cities

A Cultural Lens on Interpersonal Conflict and Creativity in Multicultural Environments

The literature on the effects of cultural diversity on conflict and team performance has been dominated by the information processing and social categorization theories. This article adds to the existing literature by adopting a dynamic constructivist approach detailing the effects of interpersonal conflict on cognition in multicultural environments. The fulcrum of this model is whether the con...

The economic value of cultural diversity: evidence from US cities

What are theeconomic consequences toU.S. natives of thegrowingdiversity of American cities? Is their productivity or utility affected bycultural diversity asmeasured by diversity of countries of birth ofU.S. residents?Wedocument in this paper a very robust correlation: US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born increased between 1970 and 1990, experiencedasign...

Cultural Influences in a multicultural academic workplace

This study investigates if there are any cultural influences on language teaching staff in a multicultural British university language centre operating overseas. Language teaching staff who work at British universities in the UK usually involve only two cultures (British and their mother tongue culture). If non-native nationals are involved in two cultures, it is expected that they would confor...

Cities, Conflict and State Fragility

This document is an output from a research programme funded by UKaid from the Department for International Development. However, the views expressed are not necessarily those of DFID. Executive Summary Cities have long been connected with processes of bureaucratisation and state building, as they have been to conflict and war. In bringing these two associations together Charles Tilly (1992) pro...

Law and Cultural Conflict