This report provides a basic set aggregate descriptive data at the country-level collected through
the World Management Survey waves, including management practices, work-life balance practices,
human capital, decentralization and available infrastructure in medium- and large-sized firms in
Africa, Asia, and Latin American developing countries. It also describes the data collection process
in great detail. As the database becomes increasingly used by researchers, we hope this report can
serve as an “expanded methodology and data manual” for the WMS, where we not only detail the
data collection process but also include an Appendix on the construction of the sampling frames.
This is particularly important for countries and sectors where we could not find a publicly available
list, so we note the challenges of data collection in these countries and how we approached the
solutions to these challenges.