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 …

more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, finds that … that there is huge variation in management in America: for example, establishments in America's South and Midwest have more … structured management practices on average than those in the Northeast and West. Higher management scores have a strong …

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management … worse managed than those in several other developed countries. We also find substantial variation in management practices … product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor …

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices … organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and … decentralization between countries, but especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like …