Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …