How does increasing globalization affect corporate transparency? Freer trade represents different facets and in theory … sector-country-year level, and a second measure of globalization-induced product market competition based on a country's own … engendered by globalization promotes corporate transparency, especially in industries that depend heavily on external financing …

"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 …

that the law constrains managerial majority shareholders, both in their day-to-day management and when they redeem the …

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …

. It reduces organizing success by lowering profits, thus giving management a greater incentive to oppose unions. It shows … that in the traditional monopoly model, any given premium can cause management to donate more resources to opposing a union …

markets, such as natural disasters, terrorist attacks, and financial crises--as a problem of risk management. This is …

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results. First …, management quality in public schools is low, and ~2σ below high-income countries with comparable data. Second, private schools … have higher management quality, driven by much stronger people management. Third, people management quality is correlated …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both production efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management practices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …