This paper investigates how Confucianism affects individual decision making in Taiwan and in China. We found that …

Beginning in the mid 1990s, China sped up its urban labor market reform and drastically restructured its state … investigate the impact of the parents' job loss on the health of their children, using six waves of the China Health and Nutrition …

We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

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 …

-stereotyping in a large cross section of (about 2,970) managers at different job levels in (1,875) Danish private-sector firms. The … survey data used contain detailed information about the managers as well as their employers. We find significant gender … differences between managers with regard to gender stereotyping attitudes. Male managers on average tend to have stronger gender …

The promotion tournament as a potentially important incentive mechanism for top management in transition economies has … an optimal response of the winner's prize to the size of the contestant pool is more evident for China's listed firms … to decide on the tournament winner). Using comprehensive financial and accounting data on China's listed firms from 1998 …