We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size …

Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both … theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey … (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with the main goal of developing a new systematic measure of management …

Management Survey (WMS) that includes new questions on firms' climate change perceptions and adaptation behavior. Combining this …, firms with structured management practices are more resilient, suffering much smaller drops in jobs and capital. To …-targeted. These results show that improving management is one way to help protect economies from climate change shocks …