Similar Search Results

Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - In: Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010) 1, pp. 105-137

decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization … relationship is complex, and identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remains a challenge for future …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009226035

Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - In: Handbook of Labor Economics

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyzes the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642955

Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610738

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; Van … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to construct instrumental variables for market...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008468548

The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2010

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008524036

IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010741465

In brief: Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

relationship with improved productivity and profits. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010765686

Working or shirking?

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598731

Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Census Bureau, Department of Commerce - 2013

monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability, higher rates of innovation and faster …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010601929

IT and management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011125935