Management practices of U.S. and European firms are explored in pursuit of an answer to two questions: why so many … scores 18 key management practices was applied to data collected on 732 medium-sized manufacturing firms in the United States …, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It was found that the measures of best management practices correlate strongly with …

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 …

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 …

environment of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is …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 …

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s 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 …