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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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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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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe (contributor); Van Reenen, John (contributor) - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite-weighted patents). To explore the mechanism through which this link arises, we build a model that nests the lazy-manager hypothesis with career-concerns, where institutional...