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Do well managed firms make better forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - 2022

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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 about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Foreign know-how, firm control, and the income of developing countries

Burstein, Ariel T.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - In: The quarterly journal of economics 124 (2009) 1, pp. 149-195

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Do private equity owned firms have better management practices?

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2009

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms … owners, this difference is not statistically significant. Looking at management practices in detail we find that Private … Equity-owned firms have strong people management practices (hiring, firing, pay and promotions) but even stronger operations …

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Foreign know-how, firm control, and the income of developing countries

Burstein, Ariel T.; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander - 2007

Managerial know-how shapes the productivity of firms by defining the set of available technologies, production choices, and market opportunities. This know-how can be reallocated across countries as managers acquire control of factors of production abroad. In this paper, we construct a...