Understanding how differences in management 'best practices' affect organizational
outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of …

This paper describes the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS),
conducted by the US Census Bureau in 2010 and 2015. The 2010 survey was the first-ever …

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After half a century of research, we now have a fair idea of what managers do. This differs
both from the “heroic self‐image” idealisation and from the sanitised “management science” …

The Editors of JMS invited four leading scholars in research on management and
organizations to have an open discussion on the current state and future prospects of …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium-
sized firms in the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These …

We examine the association between management practices and SME performance in
Britain over the period 2011–2015, using a unique dataset which links survey data on …

Managers are significant actors in contemporary organizations and yet there is very little
deep-level analysis of what managers do, and how they understand their managerial selves …

During the twentieth century, much of the discussion about managerial behaviour centred on
the difference between management functions and manager roles, with much of the debate …

The AMJ mission statement, appearing in the front matter of every issue the Journal
publishes and on the Academy of Management's website, reads in part as follows:“The …