We develop a new methodology for measuring management practices in hospitals, and use this in 182 interviews of … physicians and managers in public and private hospitals (covering 61% of English acute trusts). We find our management measure is … operational and financial outcomes. Management in publicly owned hospitals (the National Health Service) compares poorly with …

hospitals in a geographical area. We find that higher competition is positively correlated with management quality, measured …We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the … government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the governing party is expecting a tight election race ("marginals") is rare …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … this country is somewhat behind the Nordic countries, with many hospitals ?stuck? in the stage of search and ?being …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …

The Netherlands can be seen as one of the best healthcare systems in Europe. However, ICT application in hospitals in … this country is somewhat behind the Nordic countries, with many hospitals 'stuck' in the stage of search and 'being …. To better understand these differences, we develop a model of organizational adoption of ICT in hospitals and explore …

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading … to an improvement in the quality and experience of management. JAQ can be constructed for any employer-employee data …

the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …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 …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average …

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading … to an improvement in the quality and experience of management. JAQ can be constructed for any employer-employee data …