Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sizedmanufacturing firms in the US …, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survivalrates. Management practices also display significant cross-country differences with US … better management; and (ii) family firms passing managementcontrol down to the eldest sons (primo geniture), with is …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms … owners, this difference is not statistically significant. Looking at management practices in detail we find that Private … Equity-owned firms have strong people management practices (hiring, firing, pay and promotions) but even stronger operations …