assesses private management methods of dealing with price volatility. In this article, we provide an opportunity to understand …

structuring and management of the value chain. We address the importance of different quality dimensions, and how they are … control throughout the value chain. Implications for management of the value chain and contract relations between the actors …

. Entrepreneurs decide the number of layers of management and the knowledge and span of control of each agent. As a result, in the … that, as a result of a bilateral trade liberalization, firms that export will increase the number of layers of management …

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are … Poland and Lithuania operate with management practices that are only moderately worse than those of western European …

Recent studies have demonstrated the importance of good management for firm performance. Here, we focus on management … in not-for-profits (NFPs). We present a model predicting that management quality will be lower in NFPs compared to for …-profits (FPs), but that outputs may not be worse if managers are altruistic. Using a tried and tested survey of management …

maintain distinctive approaches to human resource management, which has important consequences for how firms compete, for … major contribution to our understanding of comparative management and the relationship between business, society, and the …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

. Moreover, inefficiency could partly be attributed to factors, which affect the management input and requirements on farms. …

Is management a profession? Should it be? Can it be? This major work of social and intellectual history reveals how … such questions have driven business education and shaped American management and society for more than a century. The book … moral hole at the center of business education and perhaps in management itself. Khurana begins in the late nineteenth …