We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms … owners, this difference is not statistically significant. Looking at management practices in detail we find that Private … Equity-owned firms have strong people management practices (hiring, firing, pay and promotions) but even stronger operations …

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 …