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The plausibility of cross-national comparisons of internet use types

Helsper, Ellen; Gerber, Monica M. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2012

In studies that compare Internet use between groups, factor analysis is often used to create broader categories of use. Composite variables are constructed using a factor structure that fits the overall data. This approach overlooks tests that show whether the constructs are valid and whether...

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Transcending the great foreign aid debate: managerialism, radicalism and the search for aid effectiveness

Gulrajani, Nilima - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

The Great Aid Debate pits those who are radically opposed to foreign aid against those who champion its reform to achieve greater aid effectiveness. This paper offers an analysis of this debate by introducing a heuristic distinction between aid 'radicals' and aid 'reformers'. The radical...

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New approaches to measuring management and firm organization

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We detail the methodology that we have been using to quantify managerial and organizational practices across firms and …

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Banking on trust: managing reputation risk in financial service organizations

Scott, Susan V.; Walsham, Geoff - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2002

In this paper we introduce concepts that build a theoretical notion of reputation risk and establish the need to extend our approach to managing such risk.. The existing literature on reputation risk has tended to be reactive and focus on immediate business threats rather than trying to...

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Big ideas: How competition improves management and productivity

Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011

policies to foster competition. …

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IT and management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

The Census Bureau recently conducted a survey of management practices in over 30,000 plants across the US, the first large-scale survey of management in America. Analyzing these data reveals several striking results. First, more structured management practices are tightly linked to higher levels...

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Organizing to adapt and compete

Alonso, Ricardo; Dessein, Wouter; Matouschek, Niko - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

We examine the relationship between the organization of a multi-divisional firm and its ability to adapt production … conditions, and incentive conflicts are negligible, a centralized organization can be better at adapting to local information … competition that makes adaptation more important can favor centralization rather than decentralization. …

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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Scur, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. We make some …

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Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and … theories are supported by this new data. Some stylized facts include: (1) competition seems to foster improved management and …

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Americans do I.T. better: US multinationals and the productivity miracle

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a natural advantage of being located in the US then...

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