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Do CEOs know best? : evidence from China

Bloom, Nicholas; Cheng, Hong; Duggan, Mark G.; Li, Hongbin - 2018

We analyze a new management survey for around 1,000 firms and 10,000 employees across two large provinces in China. The … unique aspect of this survey is it collected management data from the CEO, a random sample of senior managers and workers. We … poorly managed firms. This distribution of management scores is similar for CEOs, senior managers and workers management, and …

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Family firms

Burkart, Mike; Panunzi, Fausto; Shleifer, Andrei - 2002

We present a model of succession in a firm owned and managed by its founder. The founder decides between hiring a professional manager or leaving management to his heir, as well as on how much, if any, of the shares to float on the stock exchange. We assume that a professional is a better...

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Liquidity events and returns of EIF-backed VC investments

Prencipe, Dario - 2017

Despite the sometimes intensive media coverage and exuberant storytelling around the industry, venture capital (VC) investors tend to operate in highly opaque markets. On this premise, this work contributes to the literature via a hand-collected dataset of about 3,600 EIF-backed VC investments...

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Quality management system and firm performance in an emerging economy : the case of Colombian manufacturing industries : prepared for the Institutions for Development Department by...

Gallego, Juan Miguel; Gutiérrez Urdaneta, Luis H. - 2017

Over one million firms around the world have adopted a Quality Management System (QMS) that conforms to ISO 9001 certification in 2015 and recent figures show that certifications have rapidly increased in emerging economies. ISO 9001 is considered a signal of high quality for products or...

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The effectiveness of management training programs : a meta-analytic review

Busso, Matias; Park, Kyunglin; Irazoque, Nicolás - 2023

entrepreneurs and managers in specifically targeted sectors such as agriculture, manufacturing, or services was more likely to …

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FDI spillover effects on innovation activities of knowledge-using and knowledge-creating firms : evidence from an emerging economy

Vujanović, Nina; Hoshi, Iraj; Hisarciklilar, Mehtap; … - 2022

The beneficial effects of innovation for firms' performance and competitiveness are well documented, but it has been suggested in recent years that innovation regimes differ between advanced and emerging economies. While advanced economies rely on knowledge generation, their emerging...

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