We examine the role of managerial talent and its interaction with practices in determining firm performance. build a matched firm-director panel dataset for universe limited liability companies Italy, tracking individuals across different firms over time. define as management's capacity to boost firms' total factor productivity, estimated using two-way fixed effects model. Combining data survey...

The use of intranet has become crucial to support managerial practices increasing organizational creativity. However, it can also generate “creaticidal” effects by reproducing practices hampering creative processes. Based on an in-depth case study at Schneider-Electric (France), this article studies the effects of the intranet usage on creativity within the four departments of the company. The ...

Executive Overview Although managerial practices are often structured with the explicit goal of improving performance by increasing employee well-being, these practices frequently create tradeoffs between different dimensions of employee well-being, whereby one aspect of employee well-being improves but another aspect of employee well-being decreases. We call attention to the multi-dimensional ...

Alan Fox’s unitarist ideology provided a useful categorisation of managerial perspectives on managing employees and the nature of organisation. However, it was an intuitive framework, developed as part of a reformist argument for a pluralist system of industrial relations. It was not based on a systematic, empirical study of managers and, while applied to research, there has been little testing...

This article reports the second stage of exploratory study regarding the adoption of information technology outsourcing (ITO) by Mexican companies. The article aims to answer the following questions: What are the managerial practices of ITO used by Mexican companies? And what is the impact of those practices on the results and benefits of ITO? Based on a survey of 152 companies, the study repor...