We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …

decline of ¿bureaucratic¿ models of employee management and the riseof performance pay and performance management conflicts … regard unions as effectivevehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices … organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and … decentralization between countries, but especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like …

hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured … using a new survey tool. Adding a rival hospital increases management quality by 0.4 standard deviations and increases … "hidden policies" that could be used in marginal districts to improve hospital management. We also run placebo tests of …

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

average. Chronically low investment especially in infrastructure and innovation, poor management and weak intermediate skills …