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CALL FOR PAPERS for the 11th Empirical Management Conference

For the 11th year, we will be running a conference on empirical management, focused on recent empirical research on measuring and exploring management, organizational and leadership practices.

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Successful 10th Empirical Management Conference held at HBS

For the 10th year, we ran a conference on empirical management, focused on recent empirical research on measuring and exploring management, organizational and leadership practices. See the conference page here.

WMS 2024 report: launch event

How much does management matter in an era of disruption?

A converstation with John Van Reenen (LSE), Tera Allas (McKinsey & Company), Daniela Scur (Cornell University)

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Management Practices in Further Education

Researchers Sandra McNally, Luis Schmidt, and Anna Valero have just had their paper “Do Management Practices Matter in Further Education? ” accepted for publication at Economica.

Click here to access the ungated version of the manuscript.

RECENT PUBLICATIONS

The World Management Survey at 18: lessons and the way forward

Understanding how differences in management ‘best practices’ affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics, and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with the main goal of developing a new systematic measure of management practices being used in organizations. […]

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization, and Growth in Bad Times

American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 13(1):133-69

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Personnel Management and School Productivity: Evidence from India

This paper uses new data to study school management and productivity in India. We report four main results.

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WORLD MANAGEMENT SURVEY

The World Management Survey is the first cross-country, cross-industry dataset built to measure the quality of management practices in establishments. Our vision is to continue to expand the dataset using the rigour and care that goes into creating high-quality data. Most importantly, our vision is to have as many researchers as possible working with this data.

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