We investigate entry in a dynastic entrepreneurship (overlapping generations) environment created by employee spinoffs …

causal effects on product quality, production efficiency, and exports. Poor management practices may thus hinder trade and …We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find …

. We find that the elasticity of exports to return migration is between 0.1 to 0.24 in industries where migrants were …

We identify a puzzling management practice gap in China. In the South, a one standard deviation increase in firms …' management competency is associated with a 7.5 percent improvement in sales productivity and a 29.2 increase in profitability ….1 percent in management practices and in all aspects of administration. We conjecture this is partially related to the …