world system to 'deliver' a given amount of democracy, economic growth, gender equality, human development, research and … indicators, derived from sociological dependency and world systems theories, we also test the predictive power of several other …

. Neo-humanism proposes a world in which the well-being of people comes before the well-being of markets, in which promoting …

various effects across the world. We highlight three general insights that emerge from this literature. First, the …

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 …

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

policies as critical and effective environmental management tools. The current situation has stimulated extensive research and …