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Management practices do make a difference

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  • André de Waal

    (Director at the HPO Center and Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Maastricht School of Management, the Netherlands)

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.

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  • André de Waal, 2013. "Management practices do make a difference," Working Papers 2013/05, Maastricht School of Management.
    • Handle: RePEc:msm:wpaper:2013/05
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    Keywords

    high performance organization (HPO); national culture; business students;
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    JEL classification:

    • M12 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation
    • M14 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Administration - - - Corporate Culture; Diversity; Social Responsibility

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