This chapter reviews the empirical economics literature on the impact of trade liberalization
on firms' innovation-related outcomes. We define and examine four types of shocks to trade …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level
management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey …

Partnering with the US Census Bureau, we implement a new survey of “structured”
management practices in two waves of 35,000 manufacturing plants in 2010 and 2015. We …

We develop a new dataset using UNESCO source materials on the location of nearly 15,000
universities in about 1,500 regions across 78 countries, some dating back to the 11th …

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 has a large effect on the productivity of medium and large firms. But does
management matter in micro and small firms, where the majority of the labor force in …

We study the relationship among productivity, management practices, and employee ability
using German data combining management practices surveys with employees' longitudinal …

Do business accelerators affect new venture performance? We investigate this question in
the context of Start-Up Chile, an ecosystem accelerator. We focus on two treatment …