We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in 8 countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational outcomes …. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, then Italy, Brazil and …

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and … across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and decentralization not … only between countries, but also especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries …

market. We show that senior management appear to have pay that is strongly associated with various measures of firm …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first … large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured … management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first large-scale survey of management practices in America, finds that … that there is huge variation in management in America: for example, establishments in America's South and Midwest have more … structured management practices on average than those in the Northeast and West. Higher management scores have a strong …