The nexus between top managers’ human capital and firm productivity
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In: Applied Economics Letters, Vol. 22, No. 12, 13.08.2015, p. 982-986.
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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 -