consistent with the views that expropriation of minority shareholders is important internationally, that laws can restrain this …

Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both … theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey … (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with the main goal of developing a new systematic measure of management …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …