In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … construct instrumental variables for market structure. Since almost all major English hospitals are government run, closing … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as …

-line sales. Likewise, more structured management is strongly linked with superior performance: establishments adopting more …The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured …

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 …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

market regulations, and more human capital intensive organizations specialize relatively more in “people management”. There …We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices … organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and …