Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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 …