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Americans do it better : US multinationals and the productivity miracle

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - In: The American economic review 102 (2012) 1, pp. 167-201

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The organization of firms across countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity …

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Americans Do I.T. Better : US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle

Bloom, Nicholas - 2007

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US "productivity miracle" is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance

Bandiera, Oriana - 2017

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas - 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 - 2013

We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...

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Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 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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