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 …

Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of …. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was … significant performance gap between treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions …

management. To study this, researchers need to be able to measure school management accurately and cheaply at scale, and also … explain any observed relationship between school management and student learning. This paper introduces a new approach to … measurement using existing public data, and applies it to build a management index covering 15,000 schools across 65 countries …

Embedding management and operational practices survey in a broader firm capabilities survey, this paper finds that an … average firm in Croatia scores 0.532 on structured management practices, which is farther from the frontier (0.615 in the … United States). This average, however, masks the wide heterogeneity in management practices among firms. Relative to advanced …