firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …

Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when … managers move across firms. Does a firm hiring a good manager improve its performance? If yes is there some valuable knowledge …-invariant ability of the manager as well as overall firm performance. We find that the export experience gained by managers in previous …

enhances firm performance in both international and domestic markets. Our findings suggest that expatriates have superior …

result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others interpret high pay as the result of optimal contracting in a … relationship between pay and firm performance since the 1930s. Our review suggests that both managerial power and competitive …

innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

firms from 2000 to 2011 and tests the impact of the 2007-08 financial crisis on pay-performance sensitivity. We argue that … important differences both in the level of compensation and in its sensitivity to firm performance depend on two conditioning … differentiated. Overall, the compensation of Italian CEOs is positively related to firm performance. Moreover, consistent with our …

and managers who were highly educated were particularly important for firm performance. The findings imply that individual … managers drive firm performance. Discrimination against qualified business leaders causes first-order economic losses. …Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how …