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We study the processes of firm growth in the evolution of the Japanese cotton spinning industry during 1883-1914 by integrating strategy and historical approaches and utilizing rich quantitative firm-level data and detailed business histories. The resultant conceptual model highlights growth...
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We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...
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large Indian garment firm with rich survey data on line managers, we find that several key dimensions of managerial quality …
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Tracking the movement of top managers across firms, we document the importance of manager-specific fixed effects in … managers' corporate strategies, such as their preferences for internal growth and financial conservatism. Managers' early …
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In an earlier paper (Blinder and Morgan, 2005), we created an experimental apparatus in which Princeton University students acted as ersatz central bankers, making monetary policy decisions both as individuals and in groups. In this study, we manipulate the size and leadership structure of...
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Using a survey of 800 CEOs in 22 emerging economies we show that CEOs' management styles and philosophy vary with the … control rights and involvement of the owning family and founder: CEOs of firms with greater family involvement have more … also see their role as maintaining the status quo rather than bringing about change. In contrast, professional CEOs of non …
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The US Civil War provides researchers a unique opportunity to identify wartime leaders and thus to test theories of leadership. By observing both leaders and followers during the war and forty years after it, I establish that the most able became wartime leaders, that leading by example from the...
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We study the role of firm- and manager-specific heterogeneities in executive compensation. We decompose the variation in executive compensation and find that time invariant firm and especially manager fixed effects explain a majority of the variation in executive pay. We then show that in many...
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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. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...
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structure, its formalization, its development, and its implementation. We report three key results. First, different CEOs use …
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