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 …

The importance of the markteting concept for management is the subject of a long-standing controversy. This empirical … study shows, that together with other orientations of management the market orientation contributes substantially to the …