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 …

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

Professional sports facilities are among the most expensive development projects. Assessing the external effects … for unobserved spatial heterogeneity, anticipation effects, and disentangles the stadium’s function as a sports facility …

. We explore the notion of ‘active trust’ as a way of redesigning approaches to the management of risk. Our analysis … corrosive may present an occasion for creative management. We suggest that proactive reputation risk policies and practices are …

We examine the relationship between the organization of a multi-divisional firm and its ability to adapt production … conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a centralized organization can be better at adapting to local information …