In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … management quality - measured using a new survey tool - is strongly correlated with financial and clinical outcomes such as … a greater number of neighboring hospitals) is positively correlated with increased management quality, and this …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …

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 of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

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 appears to be substantial variation in management practices and …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

This paper centres around the question of ownership of firms and managerial competition and how these affect managers … affected by both ownership and competition since both ownership structure and competition provide bargaining chips to employees …. Ownership provides protections which may improve or dull employees’ incentives for human capital investment. When there is …

constitutions: non-profit cooperatives and outside ownership. In the former, ownership is shared among a group of consumers on a one …

We show that allocation of ownership matters even in a long-term relationship where problems of opportunism are less … severe unless agents are very patient. Ownership structure is chosen to give the agents best incentives to cooperate. The … be minimal. The worst ownership structure of the one-shot game is good in the repeated setting because it provides the …

decline of ‘bureaucratic’ models of employee management and the rise of performance pay and performance management conflicts … with the common rule as management seek to tie rewards more closely to individual and organisational performance. CEP … employees regard unions as effective vehicles for procedural justice. In this way, management can achieve better operation of …