TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Görg, Holger
AU  - Hanley, Aoife
        TI  - Firms' Global Engagement and Management Practices
        PY  - 2017/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10658
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10658
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - management practices
KW  - global engagement
KW  - exporting
KW  - outward investment
        ER  -