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Business Practices in Small Firms in Developing Countries
McKenzie, David J. - 2015
Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms …
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2014
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 …
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The Reorganization of Inventive Activity in the United States During the Early Twentieth Century
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014
The standard view of U.S. technological history is that the locus of invention shifted during the early twentieth century to large firms whose in-house research laboratories were superior sites for advancing the complex technologies of the second industrial revolution. In recent years this view...
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The Direct and Indirect Effects of Small Business Administration Lending on Growth : Evidence from U.S. County-Level Data
Young, Andrew T. - 2014
Conventional wisdom suggests that small businesses are innovative engines of Schumpetarian growth. However, as small businesses, they are likely to face credit rationing in financial markets. If true then policies that promote lending to small businesses may yield substantial economy-wide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013046172
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Minority Self-Employment in the United States and the Impact of Affirmative Action Programs
Blanchflower, David G. - 2021
n this paper I examine changes in self-employment that have occurred since the early 1980s in the United States. It is a companion paper to a recent equivalent paper that related to the UK. Data on random samples of approximately twenty million US workers are examined taken from the Basic...
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Contractual Tradeoffs and Smes Choice of Organizational Form, a View from U.S. And French History, 1830-2000
Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - 2014
Today the vast majority of multi-owner firms in the United States are corporations, but that was not the case in the past. Before the advent of the income tax, tort litigation, and significant federal regulation, entrepreneurs more often than not chose to organize as partnerships, a form that...
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The Effects of Covid-19 on U.S. Small Businesses : Evidence from Owners, Managers, and Employees
Alekseev, Georgij - 2020
We analyze a large-scale survey of owners, managers, and employees of small businesses in the United States to understand the effects of the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic on those businesses. The survey was fielded in late April 2020 among Facebook business page administrators, frequent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830234
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The State of Corporate Governance Research
Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2011
This paper, which introduces the special issue on corporate governance co-sponsored by the Review of Financial Studies and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), reviews and comments on the state of corporate governance research. The special issue features seven papers on corporate...
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Managerial Miscalibration
Ben-David, Itzhak - 2010
Using a unique 10-year panel that includes more than 13,300 expected stock market return probability distributions, we find that executives are severely miscalibrated, producing distributions that are too narrow: realized market returns are within the executives' 80% confidence intervals only...
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Matching Firms, Managers and Incentives
Bandiera, Oriana - 2012
We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The data includes manager characteristics, such as risk aversion and talent; firm characteristics, such as ownership; detailed measures of managerial practices relative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013115322