In recent theories of comparative development the role of institutional differences has been crucial. Yet what explains … comparative institutional evolution? We investigate this issue by studying the coffee exporting economies of Latin America. While … homogeneous in many ways, they experienced radically different paths of economic (and political) development which is conventional …

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 …