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 …

How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime …

traced to the differential organization of the coffee industry. We show that the different forms that the coffee economy took …

management, as a key factor. A model of the interaction between technology, organization and economic performance is then …

This Paper proposes a theory of the optimal organization of delegated expertise. For incentive purposes, a principal …

This paper examines hierarchies’ role in the organization of human-capital-intensive production. We develop an … equilibrium model of hierarchical organization, then provide empirical evidence using confidential data on thousands of law …

and contract theory, applying organization theories in labor economics, and using these theories to interpret the wealth …