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 …

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 …