Innovation is one of the most important issues in business research today. It has been
studied in many independent research traditions. Our understanding and study of innovation …

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-
Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to …

Research on leadership in economics has developed in parallel to the literature in
management and psychology and links between the fields have been sparse. Whereas …

Abstract Research Summary Ownership is fundamental to firm strategy, organization, and
governance. Standard ownership concepts—mainly derived from agency and incomplete …

A long-standing question is whether differences in management practices across firms can
explain differences in productivity, especially in developing countries where these spreads …

This paper asks how well different organizational structures perform in terms of generating
information about investment projects and allocating capital to these projects. A …

A large literature identifies unique organizational capabilities as a potent source of
competitive advantage, yet our knowledge of why capabilities fail to diffuse more rapidly …

Guided by theories of “management by exception,” we study the impact of information and
communication technology on worker and plant manager autonomy and span of control. The …

We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting
the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM)
and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non …