and then interpreted by management professionals. Building on an infrastructural analysis of supply chain governance, I … its expansive role. Sedex is translating modern slavery into a management problem largely based on quantitative metrics …

Using a novel dataset of establishment-level management practices from the U.S. Census Bureau, we show that firms with … more specific, formal, frequent, or explicit (i.e., “structured”) management practices tend to acquire establishments with … less structured management practices, and following the acquisition, adopt more structured practices at the target …

Firms with good management practices optimize and synthesize human resources, leadership, and technical and conceptual … skills to enhance firm value. In this paper, we examine the role of management practices in merger and acquisition (M … managerial qualities. We estimate management practices as a latent variable using a structural equation production model and …