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Improving Management Through Worker Evaluations : Evidence from Auto Manufacturing

Cai, Jing; Wang, Shing-Yi B. - 2022

Using a randomized experiment with an automobile manufacturing firm in China, we measure the effects of letting workers … evaluate their managers on worker and firm outcomes. In the treatment teams, workers evaluate their supervisors monthly. We … driven by changes in the behavior of managers and an overall better relationship between managers and workers …

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Enabling Entrepreneurial Choice

Agrawal, Ajay K.; Gans, Joshua S.; Stern, Scott - 2022

Entrepreneurs must choose between alternative strategies for bringing their idea to market. They face uncertainty regarding both the quality of their idea as well as the efficacy of each strategy. While entrepreneurs can reduce this uncertainty by conducting tests, any single test conflates the...

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

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...

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Commercializing Knowledge : University Science, Knowledge Capture, and Firm Performance in Biotechnology

Zucker, Lynne G.; Darby, Michael R.; Armstrong, Jeff S. - 2021

Commercializing knowledge involves transfer from discovering scientists to those who will develop it commercially. New codes and formulae describing discoveries develop slowly - with little incentive if value is low and many competing opportunities if high. Hence new knowledge remains naturally...

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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms

Jara-Figueroa, Cristian - 2018

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...

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Executives' "Off-the-Job" Behavior, Corporate Culture, and Financial Reporting Risk

Davidson, Robert H. - 2012

We examine how executives' behavior outside the workplace, as measured by their ownership of luxury goods (low "frugality") and prior legal infractions, is related to financial reporting risk. We predict and find that CEOs and CFOs with a legal record are more likely to perpetrate fraud. In...

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Seeking Alpha : Excess Risk Taking and Competition for Managerial Talent

Acharya, Viral V. - 2013

We present a model in which managers are risk-averse and firms compete for scarce managerial talent ("alpha"). When … managers are not mobile across firms, firms provide efficient compensation, which allows for learning about managerial talent … and for insurance of low-quality managers. When instead managers can move across firms, firms cannot offer co …

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Lack of Selection and Limits to Delegation : Firm Dynamics in Developing Countries

Akcigit, Ufuk - 2016

Managerial delegation is essential for firm growth. While firms in poor countries often shun outside managers and …

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The Dark Side of Outside Directors : Do They Quit When They are Most Needed?

Fahlenbrach, Rüdiger - 2015

Outside directors have incentives to resign to protect their reputation or to avoid an increase in their workload when they anticipate that the firm on whose board they sit will perform poorly or disclose adverse news. We call these incentives the dark side of outside directors. We find strong...

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Managerial Overconfidence and Corporate Policies

Ben-David, Itzhak - 2008

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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