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 …

The paper's main goal is to map trends in terms of management principles and directives, as well as transformations … of the public administration framework. The most emblematic feature of the current public management is the prevalence of … management paradigms, between NPM and traditional bureaucracy or between post-NPM and new public management. The literature …

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 …

consensus about the increase of management innovation practices over the last two decades. However, as in other countries, the … Management Innovation Award (FMIA), the most important innovation prize in Brazil, conducted by the National School of Public …, twenty initiatives are nominated to the final and ten are awarded as the most innovative management practices. Using …

advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing establishments with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …