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 …

In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies
and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be …

Despite the renewed interest in the use of experimental designs in the fields of leadership
and management over the past few decades, these designs are still relatively underutilized …

Hunger during pre‐harvest lean seasons is widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and
Sub‐Saharan Africa. We randomly assign an $8.50 incentive to households in rural …

This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days
worked from home relative to days worked from office—affects employee attitudes and …

This accessible guide provides clear, practical explanations of key research methods in
business studies, presenting a step-by-step approach to data collection, analysis and …

We conduct a field experiment to evaluate the effect of extrinsic rewards, both financial and
non-financial, on the performance of agents recruited by a public health organization to …

Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organised to examine the
relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is non‐linear …

In even the most market-oriented economies, most economic transactions occur not in
markets but inside managed organizations, particularly business firms. Organizational …

Why has fact-checking spread so quickly within US political journalism? In the first field
experiment conducted among reporters, we varied journalist exposure to messages that …