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Span of Control and Span of Activity
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella; Wulf, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012
For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine organizational chart information for a sample of 65 companies with detailed data on how their CEOs allocate their work time, which we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010543481
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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
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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work
Bandiera, Oriana; Prat, Andrea; Sadun, Raffaella - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010721416
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The New Empirical Economics of Management
Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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/10010762442
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822914
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Americans Do I.T. Better: US Multinationals and the Productivity Miracle
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797201
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Regulation and UK Retailing Productivity: Evidence from Micro Data
Haskel, Jonathan; Sadun, Raffaella - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005136776
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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices in Italy
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - In: Rivista di Politica Economica 98 (2008) 2, pp. 15-56
We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from more than 900 medium sized manufacturing firms across Europe and the US. Our measures of managerial practices are strongly associated with several measures of firm level performance. Management practices display...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005049623
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The new empirical economics of management
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Lemos, Renata; Scur, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 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/10011126725
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Recent advances in the empirics of organizational economics
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010
and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071170