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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A …
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Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?
Neal, Andrew; Patterson, M; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest thatthe effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturingcompanies is contingent upon organizational climate and...
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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level
Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004
Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...
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A Trapped Factors Model of Innovation
Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
When will reducing trade barriers against a low wage country cause innovation to increase in high wage regions like the … cost of innovating falls. Interestingly, the "China shock" is more likely to induce innovation than liberalization with … be faster long-run growth through innovation in the US and that, in the short run, this is magnified by the trapped …
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Trapped Factors and China's Impact on Global Growth
Bloom, Nicholas; Romer, Paul; Terry, Stephen; Reenen, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
long-run growth by increasing the profit from innovation. In the short run, factors of production must be reallocated … inside firms, which lowers the opportunity cost of innovation, generating an additional "trapped factor" effect. Starting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010747939
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Wikipedia: the value of open content production
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Without the 'spillover effects' of open content production, the growth in Wikipedia editing activity between 2002 and 2010 would have been halved. That is the central finding of research by Aleksi Aaltonen and Stephan Seiler, which analyses editing data by Wikipedia users to show how content...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933777
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Quantifying Spillovers in Open Source Content Production: Evidence from Wikipedia
Aaltonen, Aleksi; Seiler, Stephan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
Using detailed edit-level data over eight years across a large number of articles on Wikipedia, we find evidence for a positive spillover effect in editing activity. Cumulative past contributions, embodied by the current article length, lead to significantly more editing activity, while...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010780794
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IT and Management in America
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …
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In brief: Management in America
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
There are strong links between the performance of US manufacturing plants and the quality of their systems of monitoring, targets and incentives, according to research by Professor Nicholas Bloom and colleagues. Their analysis of data on more than 30,000 establishments, gathered in the first...
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Fluctuations in Uncertainty
Bloom, Nicholas - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
stimulate longer-run innovation. Finally, in terms of the Great Recession, the large jump in uncertainty in 2008 potentially …
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