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 …

. 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 …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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 …

, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …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 …

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 …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

contractible or when we preclude cooperation in long-term relationships, (ii) the rate of innovation in the cooperative equilibrium … period). In that case, for sufficiently slow diffusion, the innovation rate in the cooperative equilibrium may be higher than …

We develop a theory of innovation for entry and sale into oligopoly, and show that an invention of higher quality is …