bargaining powers such that either ownership by the government or by the NGO can be optimal. …

ownership can be optimal only if the degree of relationship-specificity is sufficiently small. If relationship-specificity can … positive level of relationship-specificity and they always agree on sole ownership by party A. …

joint ownership turns out to be robust. However, in contrast to the standard property rights model, it may well be optimal … to give ownership to a party whose investments are less productive, provided that this party's ex-post bargaining power …

results of Chiu (1998) and De Meza and Lockwood (1998), who show that the optimal ownership structure crucially depends on …

ownership, private ownership and human capital are all strongly correlated with better management. This implies that the …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 …

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 …

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 …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …