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We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …
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We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …
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This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...
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The existing literature on firms, based on incomplete contracts and property rights, emphasizes that the ownership of assets - and thereby firm boundaries - is determined in such a way as to encourage relationship-specific investments by the appropriate parties. It is generally accepted that...
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We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then … match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that … relation to other factor inputs. This is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management …
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From 1988 to 2003, the average change in managerial ownership is significantly negative every year for American firms. The probability of large decreases in ownership is strongly increasing in contemporaneous and past stock returns but the probability of large increases in ownership through...
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We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …
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that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …
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We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …
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-cycle patterns for firm growth. These theories include organizational capital accumulation and management practices, financial … organization and innovation. Second, among theories we analyze, organizational capital and management practices are the most …
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