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 …

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 …

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 present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …

management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …

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 …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy). We place HRM more generally within the literature on management …