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 …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …

"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 …

firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile … management, suggesting this performance-pay relationship arises from more aggressive monitoring and incentive practices for top …

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 …

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 …