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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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...

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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...

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Modern Management : Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2008

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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?

Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2011

person. This paper studies the role of short-term cross-border labor movements for innovation by estimating the recent impact … one fourth as potent for innovation as domestic R&D spending. We show that the technological knowledge of each business … traveler matters by estimating a higher impact for travelers that originate in U.S. states with substantial innovation, such as …

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Remote Work across Jobs, Companies, and Space

Hansen, Stephen; Lambert, Peter; Bloom, Nicholas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

The pandemic catalyzed an enduring shift to remote work. To measure and characterize this shift, we examine more than 250 million job vacancy postings across five English-speaking countries. Our measurements rely on a state-of-the-art language-processing framework that we fit, test, and refine...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across twenty countries. On average, we find that in manufacturing American, Japanese, and German firms are the best managed. Firms in...

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International Trade, Foreign Direct Investment, and Technology Spillovers

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

challenges for future empirical research, as well as the need for additional data on technology and innovation. …

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The Geography and Channels of Diffusion at the World's Technology Frontier

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2001

Convergence in per capita income turns on whether technological knowledge spillovers are global or local. Global spillovers favor convergence, while a geographically limited scope of knowledge diffusion can lead to regional clusters of countries with persistently different levels of income per...

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Trade and Transmission of Technology

Keller, Wolfgang - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1997

We present a model of R&D-driven growth which predicts that technology, in the form of product designs and created through R&D investments, is transmitted to other domestic and foreign sectors by being embodied in differentiated intermediate goods. Empirical results are presented employing data...

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