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Does management matter? : evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen (contributor) - 2011

"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

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 …

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Management Ownership and Corporate Performance : An Empirical Analysis

Morck, Randall - 1986

We investigate the relation between management ownership and corporate performance, as measured by Tobin's Q. In a …

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The Impacts of Managerial Autonomy on Firm Outcomes

Kala, Namrata - 2019

The allocation of decision rights within organizations influences resource allocation, expansion decisions, and ultimately outcomes. Using a newly constructed dataset, I estimate the effects of an earned autonomy program for State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) in India. The program gave managers (the...

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Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Forest Protection : The Transaction Costs of REDD

Alston, Lee J. - 2011

Understanding and minimizing the transaction costs of policy implementation are critical for reducing tropical forest losses. As the international community prepares to launch REDD+, a global initiative to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from tropical deforestation, policymakers need to pay...

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Does Management Matter? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461999

Insider Econometrics : Empirical Studies of How Management Matters

Ichniowski, Casey - 2009

1.Why do firms in the same industry adopt different management practices? …2.Does the adoption of a new management practice raise productivity? …3.If so, why does the new management practice raise productivity? …

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The State of Corporate Governance Research

Bebchuk, Lucian A. - 2009

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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Does Corporate Governance Matter in Competitive Industries?

Giroud, Xavier - 2009

By reducing the threat of a hostile takeover, business combination (BC) laws weaken corporate governance and increase the opportunity for managerial slack. Consistent with the notion that competition mitigates managerial slack, we find that while firms in non-competitive industries experience a...

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A Theory of Firm Scope

Hart, Oliver - 2008

The existing literature on firms, based on incomplete contracts and property rights, emphasizes that the ownership of assets - and thereby firm boundaries - is determined in such a way as to encourage relationship-specific investments by the appropriate parties. It is generally accepted that...

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