We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. -- SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin …Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions … losses exceed 5%. We also show, regardless of wage flexibility, that the main losers from the regulation are workers (and to … a lesser extent large firms) and the main winners are small firms. -- firm size ; productivity ; labor regulation …

Innovation is key to technology adoption and creation, and to explaining the vast differences in productivity across …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …

Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate … establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial … heterogeneity in management practices across establishments in Germany, with small firms having lower scores than large firms on …

We examine the impact of providing access to mobile savings accounts and improving financial management skills on the … relative to their male counterparts. The main drivers of improved business performance are improved financial management …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … than 10 employees; usually constituting the majority of firms in industrialized economies. Using the German KfW SME panel … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ …