Declines in many bumble bee species have been documented in Europe raising several ecological and economic concerns. The nature and extent of bumble bee decline in North America is poorly understood due mainly to a lack of baseline and long-term data. Museum collections provide excellent sources of information on past and current species distributions, which can be used to infer changes in the ...

We investigate the impact of collaborative filtering recommender algorithms (e.g., Amazon.com’s “Customers who bought this item also bought”), commonly used in e-commerce, on sales volume and diversity. We use data from a randomized field experiment on movie sales run by a top retailer in North America. For sales volume, we show that different algorithms have differential impacts. Purchase-base...

Individual diversity management was framed as how individual managers engage with and experience diversity situations. Salutogenesis was chosen as the psychological model to understand individual' management of diversity. The aim of the research was to investigate whether and how sense of coherence (SOC) acts as differentiator between ineffective and effective diversity management amongst manag...

We examine the process and performance effects of two different forms of functional diversity in management teams – the predominant conceptualization in the literature (dominant function diversity) and a second conceptualization that has been generally overlooked (intra-personal functional diversity). In a sample of business unit management teams, dominant function diversity had a negative and ...