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Albert, Christoph; Glitz, Albrecht; Llull, Joan - 2021

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What drives differences in management?

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 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 about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Technologischer Wettbewerb und Marktstruktur : industrieökonomische Modellierung und empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel des Maschinenbaus

Bletschacher, Georg - 1995

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Male and female competitive behavior : experimental evidence

Gupta, Nabanita Datta (contributor); … - 2005

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Competition and physician-enabled demand : the role of managed care

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Discrimination as a competitive device : the case of local television news

Myers, Caitlin K. (contributor) - 2005

Local news offers a unique look not only at customer preferences but also at the strategic response of firms to these preferences. This paper uses a combination of ratings data and newly gathered information on television stations in 25 U.S. markets to examine the decisions of competing firms...