Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161281 
Year of Publication: 
2017
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 10658
Publisher: 
Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We investigate whether firms' "global engagement", either in the form of exporting or opening up affiliates abroad, is related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates abroad, is related to improving management performance in the sense of firms applying more structured management practices.
Subjects: 
management practices
global engagement
exporting
outward investment
JEL: 
F2
L2
M2
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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