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fisheries management and how they reflected in practice in the turbot war, are presented. In section 3 we reflect on how the … arising from the usual combination of the basic model of fisheries management with Game Theory. In empirical terms we draw …
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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 …
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Although trust is fundamental to social and organizational functioning, the media often portray managers as distrusting, suggesting that distrust of others is a typical personality variable of successful leaders. This study puts the cliché of the distrustful manager to the test. Both selfreport...
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: "symbiotische Karrieretandems", "fremdbestimmte Tandems", "Sparringspartner*innen im höheren Management" und "strategische Bündnisse … im höheren Management". … management" and "strategic alliances in senior management". …
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Berkshire Hathaway, among history's largest and most successful corporations, shuns middlemen; its chairman, the legendary investor Warren Buffett, excoriates financial intermediaries. The acquisitive conglomerate rarely borrows money, retains brokers, or hires consultants. Its governance is...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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