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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe - 2017

What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...

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Does Management Matter in Schools?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044342

Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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Competition and Innovation : An Inverted U Relationship

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Griffith, Rachel; … - 2021

This paper investigates the relationship between product market competition (PMC) and innovation. A growth model is … reduce innovation incentives for laggards. There are four key predictions. First, the relationship between product market … competition (PMC) and innovation is an inverted U-shape. Second, the equilibrium degree of technological neck-and-neckness' among …

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company 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...

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World Management Survey at 18 : Lessons and the Way Forward

Scur, Daniela; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John; … - 2021

Understanding how differences in management "best practices" affect organizational outcomes has been a focus of both theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey (WMS) project was born almost two decades ago with...

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Investment and Subjective Uncertainty

Bloom, Nicholas; Davis, Steven J.; Foster, Lucia; … - 2022

A longstanding challenge in evaluating the impact of uncertainty on investment is obtaining measures of managers' subjective uncertainty. We address this challenge by using a detailed new survey measure of subjective uncertainty collected by the U.S. Census Bureau for approximately 25,000...

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Macroeconomic Adjustment and the History of Crises in Open Economies

Aizenman, Joshua - 2012

This paper investigates the impact of the history of crises on macroeconomic performance. We first study the impact of past banking crises on the probability of a future banking crisis. Applying data for 1980‐2010 for all countries for which the required information is available, controlling...

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