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 …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

Strategy games are a popular part of today's management training in education and business. Complex economic …

carried out in this paper focuses on three institutional fields in both market economies: control of management, corporate …, exerting pressure on management to deliver good corporate performance. On the other hand, in Germany, we find an important role … of banks that exert direct control over firm´s management and its strategic decision-making. As for corporate finance …