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 …

approaches of the managers, the corporate performance appraisal and the management decision support role, and the corporate …

decision making is usually conducted by a firm’s top management, led by the CEO or the President of the company. In keeping … management skills and decision making routines between Entrepreneurs and Executives within the investigated management cultures. …

, strategic planning and strategic management. There might be a controversy existing about the naming, characteristics and timing … outstandingly interesting if we consider their real effect on the theory and practice of strategic management. Let us remember the … on the long run. During the research the big question has risen concerning how did the science of strategic management do …