What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of ...

LSE research has demonstrated how management practices affect productivity, providing vital evidence for designing industrial strategies to tackle low productivity. Van Reenen’s work on the World ...

People who create management theories rely upon observation and mathematics in order to construct a model for business activities. Management practice relies upon case studies and the individual ...

People are billed as companies' most important asset so routinely that we should be surprised they don't all sleep nights in a corporate vault. Yet, in the hard-nosed, bottom-line discipline of ...

Human resources functions are significantly different from HR practices. Functions are comprised of transactional activities that can be handled in-house or easily outsourced. Practices are part ...