Metcalfe, Robert D.; Sollaci, Alexandre B.; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … to hone in on managers' personal roles in determining store performance. We find: (i) managers affect and explain a large … share of the variance of store-level productivity; (ii) negative assortative matching between managers and stores, which may …