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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
&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443152
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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
&D knowledge located in the US. The positive influence on total factor productivity is larger if the research of the inventors …-how. -- technology sourcing ; knowledge spillovers ; productivity ; open innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009538027
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012951906
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Turbulence, firm decentralization and growth in bad times
Aghion, Philippe; Bloom, Nicholas; Lucking, Brian; … - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641565
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Turbulence, Firm Decentralization and Growth in Bad Times
Aghion, Philippe - 2017
What is the optimal form of firm organization during "bad times"? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from US administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant managers prior to the Great...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957505
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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry
Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers" : a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126004
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Innovation and Institutional Ownership
Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005661518
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Management as a technology?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016
Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011486495
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Why Do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries?
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2014
productivity differentials are due to "hard" technological innovations as embodied in patents or adoption of new machinery …Economists have long puzzled why there are such astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For … and Jones (1999) and Jones and Romer (2009) show how the stark differences in productivity across countries account for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199247
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Why do management practices differ across firms and countries?
Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - 2010
Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example … productivity could be accounted for by differential inputs, such as capital intensity. Syverson looked at industries defined at the … Syverson (2008) show large differences in total factor productivity even within very homogeneous goods industries such as boxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008654267