We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

We detail the methodology that we have been using to quantify managerial and organizational practices across firms and countries in recent years. This has been used in many pieces of research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We discuss the pros and cons of such survey tools, describing...

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There...

In seinem Lehrbuch befasst sich Tobias Kollmann mit der Unternehmensgründung und der Finanzierung von jungen Unternehmen in der Digitalen Wirtschaft. Die resultierenden Startups im Internet, Mobilfunk oder interaktiven Fernsehen haben sich inzwischen als gesamtwirtschaftlich bedeutender Faktor...