We study the impact of managers on the success of professional soccer teams using data from the German "Bundesliga". We … evaluate the performance impact of individual managers by estimating regression models that include both team and manager fixed … effects, where we are exploiting the high turnover of managers between teams to disentangle the managers' contributions. We …

We examine the impact of management practices on firm performance among SMEs in Britain over the period 2011 …-2014, using a unique dataset which links survey data on management practices with firm performance data from the UK's official … business register. We find that SMEs are less likely to use formal management practices than larger firms, but that such …

that both overconfident owner-managers and professional managers who have myopic preferences can enhance firm value (up to … a point) by increasing investment. This value-enhancing role of overconfidence is more evident for professional managers … than for owner-managers. The results from simulation and empirical analyses support the model's predictions. Thus, while …

This paper investigates how conservative managers make corporate decisions. Motivated by psychology research, we use …