provides empirical evidence that low non-pecuniary amenities, such as development opportunities and management, can explain …

An expanding body of literature has shown that better management practices can offer significant boosts to firms … the various dimensions and drivers of management practices and analyzes how they are related to productivity. This is an … important topic to investigate, given the lagging levels of productivity growth in the region. If management practices can boost …

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of … municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial heterogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This … positive relationship between the degree of structured management and a diverse set of performance measures capturing …

We study management practices and performance of public sector organizations in Germany. For a representative sample of … municipalities, we provide survey evidence for substantial het-erogeneity in the use of structured management practices. This …-atic positive relationship between the degree of structured management and a diverse set of performance measures capturing …