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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo … market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928804
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Convergence of firm-level productivity, globalisation, information technology and competition: evidence from France
Chevalier, Paul-Antoine; Lecat, Rémy; Oulton, Nicholas - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
stylised facts are considered: globalisation, information technology, and competition. Globalisation and information technology … may have benefited the most productive firms more and the growth of competition may at the same time have stimulated the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744856
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Do private equity owned firms have better management practices?
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity, profitability and stock market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745737
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Modern management: good for the environment or just hot air?
Bloom, Nick; Genakos, Christos; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746109
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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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Human resource management and productivity
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
theories of HRM. We look at some of the determinants of HRM – risk, competition, ownership and regulation. The largest section …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746475
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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager … competitiveness of product markets, one explanation for the trend towards decentralization could be increased competition. Of course … find that competition does indeed seem to foster greater decentralization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746493
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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
theories are supported by this new data. Some stylized facts include: (1) competition seems to foster improved management and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071170
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The organization of firms across countries
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
non-hierarchical religions and product market competition are also associated with more decentralization. Together these …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071301
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Innovation, reallocation and growth
Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745637