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Coordinating tasks in M-form and U-form organisations
Qian, Yingyi; Roland, Gerard; Xu, Cheng-Gang - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2003
We model the coordination of specialised tasks inside an organisation as "attribute matching". Using this method, we … compare the performance of organisational forms (M-form and U-form) in implementing changes such as innovation and reform. In … our framework, organisational forms affect the information structure of an organisation and thus the way to coordinate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928762
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744969
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746415
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746546
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Big ideas: How competition improves management and productivity
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on policies to foster competition.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125922
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IT and management in America
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
, higher rates of innovation and faster employment growth. Second, there is a substantial dispersion of management practices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125935
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126298
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The new empirical economics of management
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Scur, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126725
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071170
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071454