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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458562
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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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CEO Behavior and Firm Performance
Bandiera, Oriana - 2017
mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …
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