Sweden. I find interesting differences and similarities in the firms’ strategies in terms of how they responded to these …

complexity and uncertainty. We exploit quasi-random assignment of employees to managers and study the role of frontline managers … administrative data and panel survey data from before and during the Covid-19 pandemic, we find that frontline managers who were …

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 …Better managers and managerial practices lead to better firm performance. Yet, little is known about what happens when …

brightest managers to the public sector abound. This paper studies self-selection into managerial and non-managerial positions … return to managerial ability is always highest in the private sector. As a result, relatively many of the more able managers …