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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2006
-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928804
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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing
Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745644
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Human resource management and productivity
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746475
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126004
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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
and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071170
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The growth of extended 'entry tournaments' and the decline of institutionalised occupational labour markets in Britain
Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
In recent years, British labour markets have been characterised by a decline of institutional regulation of entry routes into many occupations and internal labour markets. This paper examines this change by comparing occupational labour markets for selected occupations in which institutional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010744947
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
Since Adam Smith’s time, the division of labor in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an increasingly complex division of labor has raised the demand for clerical office...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745003
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The division of labor, coordination, and the demand for information processing
Michaels, Guy - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
The Division of Labour, Coordination, and the Demand for Information Processing* Since Adam Smith's time, the division of labour in production has increased significantly, while information processing has become an important part of work. This paper examines whether the need to coordinate an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746398
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The 'network economy' and models of the employment contract: psychological, economic and legal
Marsden, David - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
The emergence of the so-called ‘network economy’ and the development of project-based work pose a fundamental challenge to established methods of regulating the employment relationship. There appears to be an unsatisfied demand for its greater use, especially among employers, and it is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746457
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Strong managers, weak boards?
Adams, Renee B.; Ferreira, Daniel - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Many governance reform proposals are based on the view that boards have been too friendly to executives, for example, by awarding them excessive pay. Although boards are often on friendly terms with executives, it is less clear that they have systematically failed to function in the interests of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126080