range of management, organisations and sectors, including services (IT, media, retail, hotels, finance, research and … using the common format that allowed the main contours of women in management to be traced in a similar manner with … and managers who succeeded in developing exceptional management styles. These case studies provide more specific …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firmlevel 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 …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in 8 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, then Italy, Brazil and …

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 …

We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and … across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and decentralization not … only between countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

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 … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, finds that … that there is huge variation in management in America: for example, establishments in America's South and Midwest have more … structured management practices on average than those in the Northeast and West. Higher management scores have a strong …