Prediction and ranking of corporate diversity in European and American firms

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Attention to corporate diversityis included in this trend, although most studies ignore the perception of diversity byemployees and its rankability. In this paper, we analyze corporate diversity rankingsfrom the perspective of predictive and prescriptive analytics. Inside predictive analyt-ics, the perceived diversity of a sample of 350 European diversity leader companies ispredicted by using three different feature sets and three Machine Learning algorithms.Inside prescriptive analytics, several rankings involving American companies are in-tersected and compared in three exercises (studying diversity categorization, ethnicorigin and comparing diversity with other unrelated metrics). From these, global rank-ings were built to search for the best possible agreement among the rankings. Theseresults with both predictive and prescriptive analytics encourage managers to strate-gize and include diversity in management, as well as employ new technologies in theirdecision-making processes. Corporate Governance Diversity and Inclusion Machine Learning Operations Research Human Resources Management Full Text Additional Declarations No competing interests reported. Supplementary Files AppendixDiversityDF.pdf Cite Share Download PDF Status: Under Review Version 1 posted Reviewers invited by journal 19 Nov, 2025 Editor assigned by journal 25 Jun, 2025 Submission checks completed at journal 24 Jun, 2025 First submitted to journal 22 Jun, 2025 You are reading this latest preprint version Research Square lets you share your work early, gain feedback from the community, and start making changes to your manuscript prior to peer review in a journal. As a division of Research Square Company, we’re committed to making research communication faster, fairer, and more useful. We do this by developing innovative software and high quality services for the global research community. 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