We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of their own sales and also macro forecasts of GDP. We find that better …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …