How does "what managers know" affect firm performance on international markets? This question is of considerable …, stems from the experience of doing it. Therefore, different employers immensely contend for managers' highly valuable export … experience. As managers can accept better and better positions from several offers, they may become highly mobile, thus having a …

This paper examines how managers at the top of a public institution, central bank executives, allocate their working …

by studying whether female managers and female owners of firms perceived corruption differently; (b) using survey … information at the firm level; and (c) employing a large sample of more than 100 countries. Results show that both female managers …

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

When managers have objectives beyond maximizing monetary profits, inefficiencies may arise. An increase in competition … may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … received ample theoretical attention, empirical evidence is scarce, mainly because preferences of managers are typically …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

Incentive compensation induces correlation between the portfolio of managers and the cash flow of the firms they manage …. This correlation exposes managers to risk and hence gives them an incentive to hedge against the poor performance of their …

Corporate scandals, reflected in excessive management compensation and fraudulent accounts, cause considerable damage …. Agency theory’s insistence on linking the compensation of managers and directors as closely as possible to firm performance …