Bloom, Nick; Dorgan, Stephen; Dowdy, John; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 731 medium sized manufacturing firms in … capital employed (profitability), Tobin’s Q and sales growth. We also find a surprisingly large dispersion of management … exist while apparently deploying inferior management practices? Our analysis suggests that this is due, in part, to a …