% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory. Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as … better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of …

This paper uses firm-level information to evaluate how crises are transmitted internationally. It constructs a new data … set of financial statistics, industry information, geographic data, and stock returns for over 10,000 companies in 46 …

system and the quality of communications between the manager and the staff, had a significant effect on the branch …

organizations has a long history in the social sciences. The interest in economics, arguably more recent, reflects a general concern … about the sources of competitiveness in organizations. A number of methodological problems have confronted previous attempts … comparable across organizations, and most importantly a unique longitudinal design incorporating data from a period prior to the …