Management practices do make a difference

Andre de Waal

No 2013/05, Working Papers from Maastricht School of Management

Abstract: An issue which has occupied management researchers for a long time is that of the direction of causality, centering around the question: Do certain management practices cause better performance or do better performing organizations find it easier to adopt certain management practices? Much research, looking into the connections between organizations practicing certain management techniques and their organizational performance, find positive relations between the two but this is showing only correlation and not causality. This research shows that applying certain management practices, in this case the High Performance Organization (HPO) Framework, does impact the performance of organizations positively and that thus the causality is from management practice to organizational performance and not the other way around.

Keywords: high performance organization (HPO); national culture; business students (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: M12 M14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 24 pages
Date: 2013-02
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