Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey

This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that management quality is positively correlated w...

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Main Authors:	Del Carpio, Ximena, Taskin, Temel
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC: World Bank 2019
Subjects:	FIRM BEHAVIOR BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LABOR MANAGEMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY JOB CREATION
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/383521556038423877/Quality-of-Management-of-Firms-in-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31657

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spelling	okr-10986-316572021-05-25T09:23:20Z Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey Del Carpio, Ximena Taskin, Temel FIRM BEHAVIOR BUSINESS MANAGEMENT LABOR MANAGEMENT FIRM PRODUCTIVITY JOB CREATION This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that management quality is positively correlated with productivity and quality of jobs across subsectors of manufacturing. But the average score of management quality in Turkey is relatively low compared to peer countries. Factors such as firm size, level of human capital of the workforce, export intensity of the firm, openness to international markets, level of hierarchy in decision making, and degree of managerial autonomy are found to be important determinants of managerial practices in Turkey. Thus, improvements in these dimensions, through relevant policies and incentives, can have a positive effect on the quality of firm management going forward.Such improvements in management practices—particularly in the two dimensions whereTurkey scores lowest: monitoring and targeting—can have positive effects on firmperformance and lead to increases in the creation of quality jobs. 2019-05-08T20:27:17Z 2019-05-08T20:27:17Z 2019-04-01 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/383521556038423877/Quality-of-Management-of-Firms-in-Turkey http://hdl.handle.net/10986/31657 English Jobs Working Paper;No. 27 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank Washington, DC: World Bank Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Turkey
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description	This paper examines the quality of management practices in Turkey and its relation to other firm-level characteristics such as firm performance, competition, and type of ownership. A key finding is that management quality is positively correlated with productivity and quality of jobs across subsectors of manufacturing. But the average score of management quality in Turkey is relatively low compared to peer countries. Factors such as firm size, level of human capital of the workforce, export intensity of the firm, openness to international markets, level of hierarchy in decision making, and degree of managerial autonomy are found to be important determinants of managerial practices in Turkey. Thus, improvements in these dimensions, through relevant policies and incentives, can have a positive effect on the quality of firm management going forward.Such improvements in management practices—particularly in the two dimensions whereTurkey scores lowest: monitoring and targeting—can have positive effects on firmperformance and lead to increases in the creation of quality jobs.
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author	Del Carpio, Ximena Taskin, Temel
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title	Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey
title_short	Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey
title_full	Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey
title_fullStr	Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey
title_full_unstemmed	Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey
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publisher	Washington, DC: World Bank
publishDate	2019
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Quality of Management of Firms in Turkey

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