While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

The IT revolution generated important changes on society and firms. Under these circumstances, the companies’ management reaches to the five-generation assuring, base on plurality, fast decisions making, and an equal treatment of the employers taking into consideration the high level of their...

Strategy implementation is a continuous process – national or international. A chosen strategy must be revised continuously in order to identify and deal with strategic issues as they arise (internal and external contexts). This process has to consider the interrelationships between...

The management principles define the requirements regarding the system, structure and management organization. Tourism management is determined by the main theories and rules that govern all levels of management. These rules define the „line” behavior of the manager and are treated as...

This research explores the impact of gender on managerial styles, especially the strategic typology employed by hotel managers in Canada during economic stressful times. Miles and Snow’s strategic typology framework of defender, prospector, analyzer and reactor was employed and explored...

This work provides a useful emphasis on the interactions between entrepreneurship and strategic management. The causes of individual entrepreneurial action and strategic management process constitute the primary interest of the researcher. Both the individual entrepreneur and the environment as...

Contained herein is an array of exciting and knowledgeable papers that discuss, from assorted disciplinary angles, the "present and future impact of computers on management organization and the nature of managerial work." No two papers cover the same ground or reach identical conclusions, for...

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...