Similar Search Results

Closing the Productivity Gap with the US : Causes and Consequences of the Productivity Program in Western Europe

Giorcelli, Michela - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

promoted management training trips for European managers at US firms. Through the analysis of reports compiled by UK, France … increase thanks to the program. The fact that European businesses were not forced to adopt the American management model, but …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447280

Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456349

Inventive Capabilities in the Division of Innovative Labor

Arora, Ashish - 2018

We study how the inventive capability of a firm conditions its participation in a division of innovative labor. Capable firms are, by definition, able to invent; for them, external inventions substitute for their own R&D. However, external knowledge is an input into internal invention, and thus,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480704

Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461940

Innovators : Songwriters

Galenson, David - 2009

Irving Berlin and Cole Porter were two of the great experimental songwriters of the Golden Era. They aimed to create songs that were clear and universal. Their ability to do this improved throughout much of their careers, as their skill in using language to create simple and poignant images...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463138

The Impact of Uncertain Intellectual Property Rights on the Market For Ideas : Evidence From Patent Grant Delays

Gans, Joshua S. - 2007

This paper considers the impact of the intellectual property (IP) system on the timing of cooperation/licensing by start-up technology entrepreneurs. If the market for technology licenses is efficient, the timing of licensing is independent of whether IP has already been granted. In contrast,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465419

Creative Destruction and Firm-Specific Performance Heterogeneity

Chun, Hyunbae - 2007

Traditional U.S. industries with higher firm-specific stock return and fundamentals performance heterogeneity use information technology (IT) more intensively and post faster productivity growth in the late 20th century. We argue that elevated firm performance heterogeneity mechanically reflects...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465644

Invention Value, Inventive Capability and the Large Firm Advantage

Arora, Ashish; Cohen, Wesley M.; Lee, Honggi; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Do large firms produce more valuable inventions, and if so, why? After confirming that large firms indeed produce more valuable inventions, we consider two possible sources: a superior ability to invent, or a superior ability to extract value from their inventions. We develop a simple model that...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013362008

Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466452

Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456573