responds more to increases in shareholders' return performance than to decreases. Further, this asymmetry is stronger when …

unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …, we find that the CEO's management scores are the most predictive of firm performance, followed by the senior managers and …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile … management, suggesting this performance-pay relationship arises from more aggressive monitoring and incentive practices for top …