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 …

This study presents evidence that structured management practices and their relationship to productivity can vary with … a firm's external institutional linkages. Combining ideas from new institutionalism with the empirical management … literature, we formulate propositions of how external linkages could affect the development and utility of structured management …

management practices and skills in hospitals across nine countries. We find that hospitals that are closer to universities … offering both medical education and business education have higher management quality, more MBA trained managers and lower …

Using the management and operational practices survey in the Russian Federation, this paper finds that an average … Russian manufacturing firm adopts 43 percent of the structured management practices (a score of 0.43), a value that is far …, where a large share of firms adopt few structured management practices and only 3.5 percent of them have a score over 0 …

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product … quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find … inputs, and imported inputs from more advanced countries. The structural estimates indicate that management is important for …