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Robots and Worker Voice: An Empirical Exploration

Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Landini, Fabio - 2020

The interplay between labour institutions and the adoption of automation technologies remains poorly understood … conditional correlations between the presence of employee representation (ER) and the use of automation technologies. We find that … ER is positively associated with robot usage. The presence of ER also correlates with the utilization of software …

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Global Talent Flows

Pekkala, Sari; Kerr, William; Ozden, Caglar; Parsons, … - 2016

The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape...

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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times

Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 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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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...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 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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A Firm Scientific Community: Industry Participation and Knowledge Diffusion

Baruffaldi, Stefano; Pöge, Felix - 2020

We study the diffusion of knowledge from scientists to firms within scientific communities. We build on a unique dataset on conference proceedings as "paper trail" of almost all relevant conference series in computer science since 1996. More than 5000 firms appear as conference sponsors or as...

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The Impact of a New Quality Management Practice on Firm Performance: Evidence from Pakistan

Faran, Mahvish; Taylor, Karl - 2021

This paper uses a novel firm level data set to investigate the impact of a unique quality management practice on the production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production complexity is an important element in determining...

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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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Contested Transparency: Digital Monitoring Technologies and Worker Voice

Belloc, Filippo; Burdin, Gabriel; Dughera, Stefano; … - 2023

capabilities, facilitating the accurate observability of work effort. There is an ongoing debate among academics and policymakers …

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World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward

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

theoretical and empirical work in the fields of management, sociology, economics and public policy. The World Management Survey …

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