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What are the channels for technology sourcing? : panel data evidence from German companies

Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012

Innovation processes within corporations increasingly tap into international technology sources, yet little is known about the relative contribution of different types of innovation channels. We investigate the effectiveness of different types of international technology sourcing activities...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We find large cross-country differences in the...

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Have R&D Spillovers Changed?

Lucking, Brian - 2017

This paper revisits the results of Bloom, Schankerman, and Van Reenen (2013) on the impact of R&D spillovers on growth. We extend their analysis to include an additional 15 years of data on firm R&D and performance, and update the measures of firms' interactions in technology space and product...

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What are the channels for technology sourcing? : panel data evidence from German companies

Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David; Van … - 2016

Korrelation durch das höhere Humankapital eines "Durchschnittsbeschäftigten" in besser gemanagten Firmen erklärt. Einen größeren … Anteil (ungefähr 13%) macht das Humankapital der höchstbezahlten Beschäftigten aus, die wir als Manager in der betreffenden … mit höherem Humankapital rekrutieren und diese binden. Insgesamt erklären Personalauswahl und Lohnaufschläge somit fast 30 …

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

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Measuring and Explaining Management PracticesAcross Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2005

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sizedmanufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerialpractice are strongly associated with productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survivalrates....

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Technology, Information and the Decentralization of the Firm

Acemoglu, Daron; Aghion, Philippe; Lelarge, Claire; Van … - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich> - 2007

This paper analyzes the relationship between the diffusion of new technologies and the decentralization of firms. Centralized control relies on the information of the principal, which we equate with publicly available information. Decentralized control, on the other hand, delegates authority to...

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The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Bloom, Nick; Garicano, Luis; Sadun, Raffaella; Van … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

Empirical studies on information communication technologies (ICT) typically aggregate the“information” and “communication” components together. We show theoretically and empirically thatthese have very different effects on the empowerment of employees, and by extension on wageinequality....

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What are the channels for technology sourcing? Panel data evidence from German companies

Harhoff, Dietmar; Mueller, Elisabeth; Van Reenen, John - 2012

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