Management practices of U.S. and European firms are explored in pursuit of an answer to two questions: why so many … scores 18 key management practices was applied to data collected on 732 medium-sized manufacturing firms in the United States …, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. It was found that the measures of best management practices correlate strongly with …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

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 …