of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type …

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 …

result of powerful managers setting their own pay. Others interpret high pay as the result of optimal contracting in a …

We study the effect of analyst coverage on firms' innovation strategy and outcome. By considering three different … negative effect becomes not significant when firms' in-house R&D spending and external innovation channels are taken into … account. We find that more financial analysts encourage firms to make more efficient investments related to innovation, which …

Can historical institutions affect today's firm innovation? We analyze a historical experiment in 1902, when the … industrial firms in China, we show that firms in locations historically affected by the CMC rules exhibit higher innovation …

In this study, we investigate whether and to what extent community managers in online collaborative communities can … find that active engagement of community managers positively affects crowd activities in an inverted Ushaped manner …. Moreover, we evidence that intellectual stimulation by managers increases community participation, while individual …