International managerial skill and big Colombian exporting firms' performance, 2006-2014

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This paper proposes and estimates a two-step methodology to measure international managerial skill and calculate its impact on firm performance, using a sample of the biggest private Colombian exporting firms. The first step quantifies the manager's organizational capital contribution to improve production efficiency (ability to assemble inputs into final goods) and/or quality capacity (skill to make high quality goods) mechanisms described by Bloom et al. (2021), through the median of export unit value regression residuals at firm-year level multiplied by -1 for products that compete in the international market by price. Then, second step firm performance regression results indicate that: i) international managerial quality has a significative and robust positive effect on total exported value via intensive margin, ii) exported value elasticity relative to international managerial quality is statistically equal than exported value elasticity relative to exogenous global demand shocks, and iii) better managers in the international market do not necessarily upgrade export quality.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: Kiel Working Paper ; No. 2226

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Trade and Labor Market Interactions ; Trade: General ; Production Management ; Personnel Management; Executives; Executive Compensation ; Firm Performance: Size, Diversification, and Scope
• Thema: management practices ; quality vs price competition ; firm’ ; s performance ; intensive margin

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Merchan Alvarez, Federico Alberto
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel)
• (wo): Kiel
• (wann): 2023

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/268962
• URN: urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023030902183517606491
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ