performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control … better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of …

across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these … markets are associated with improvements in incentive management practices such as performance based promotion. …

different effects on the labour market. Information technologies, which provide access to stored data, tend to empower frontline …

identifying unique patterns of knowledge flows (based on patent citations), which provide information about whether 'spilled …

Guided by theories of management by exception, we study the impact of Information and Communication Technology on … manufacturing firms, that better information technologies (Enterprise Resource Planning for plant managers and CAD/CAM for … production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span, while technologies that improve communication (like data …

performance. We develop and test a simple contracting model of technology licensing offices, using new survey information together … pay than public ones, but ownership does not affect licensing performance conditional on the use of incentive pay …