TY - JOUR

T1 - The nexus between top managers’ human capital and firm productivity

AU - Pfeifer, Christian

PY - 2015/8/13

Y1 - 2015/8/13

N2 - The author uses panel data from the World Bank enterprise survey for the Egyptian manufacturing sector in order to analyse the nexus between top managers’ human capital and productivity of firms. Pooled as well as firm fixed effects linear regressions indicate that firms are indeed on average more productive if the top manager has some kind of university degree, more experience in management activities and foreign experience in management jobs. Therefore, the overall results emphasize the importance of top managers and more generally of human capital in the determination of firm productivity.

AB - The author uses panel data from the World Bank enterprise survey for the Egyptian manufacturing sector in order to analyse the nexus between top managers’ human capital and productivity of firms. Pooled as well as firm fixed effects linear regressions indicate that firms are indeed on average more productive if the top manager has some kind of university degree, more experience in management activities and foreign experience in management jobs. Therefore, the overall results emphasize the importance of top managers and more generally of human capital in the determination of firm productivity.

KW - Economics

KW - firm productivity

KW - manager characteristics

KW - human capital

KW - World Bank enterprise survey

KW - Egypt

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84929711161&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1080/13504851.2014.993128

DO - 10.1080/13504851.2014.993128

M3 - Journal articles

VL - 22

SP - 982

EP - 986

JO - Applied Economics Letters

JF - Applied Economics Letters

SN - 1350-4851

IS - 12

ER -