Zeitschrift mir - Management International Review. Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Joachim Wolf ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Organisation … der Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. Er ist außerdem Co-Editor-in-Chief der Zeitschrift mir - Management …

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 …