Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sizedmanufacturing firms in the US …, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survivalrates. Management practices also display significant cross-country differences with US … better management; and (ii) family firms passing managementcontrol down to the eldest sons (primo geniture), with is …

tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices …. To establish this, I report on new research seeking to quantify management. I relate this to theoretical perspectives on … the economics of competition and management, arguing that management should be seen at least in part as a transferable …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of “structured” management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …