Interest in market power has recently surged among economists in many fields, well beyond
its traditional home in industrial organization. This has focused empirical attention on …

We use the spread of COVID-19 in Italy, the first Western country hit by the pandemic, to
investigate the role of structured management practices in responding to a large shock. We …

The academic field of strategy has a strong history of developing theories and frameworks to
explain real-world phenomena but a relatively younger empirical literature testing these …

We collect time-use data for entrepreneurs and their workers in over 1,000 manufacturing
firms in urban Uganda. We document limited labor specialization within the firm for …

The COVID-19 crisis represented an unprecedented shock for the private sector, affecting
businesses through many channels at an uncontrolled speed and spanning a duration of …

Over the past three decades, Mexico's economic model has succeeded in maintaining
stable macroeconomic fundamentals, increasing export competitiveness, promoting …

This paper uses a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms to propose and
estimate a two‐step methodology for measuring international managerial skill and …

We examine the impact of changes in local labor market concentration on two components
of income inequality in Mexico: local wage shares and labor income inequality. Combining …

Prior work has shown that the misallocation of capital and labor substantially lowers
aggregate productivity. In this paper, we use Census microdata at the plant level to …

Managed organizations play a crucial role in economic growth and development. From
family farms to artisanal workshops to large multinational enterprises, organizations are …