Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average … Russian manufacturing firm adopts 43 percent of the structured management practices (a score of 0.43), a value that is far …, where a large share of firms adopt few structured management practices and only 3.5 percent of them have a score over 0 …

An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms … the various dimensions and drivers of management practices and analyzes how they are related to productivity. This is an … important topic to investigate, given the lagging levels of productivity growth in the region. If management practices can boost …

Differences in management quality are an important contributor to productivity differences across countries. A key … question is how to best improve poor management in developing countries. This paper tests two different approaches to improving … management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first uses intensive and expensive one-on-one consulting, while the second draws on …