Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as … that accounted for by R&D, and twice as much as explained by IT. We find evidence for four "drivers" of management …

management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on … structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

management practices are tightly linked to higher levels of IT intensity in terms of a higher expenditure on IT and more on … structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China’s entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … to increases in R&D, patenting, IT and TFP within firms; and second it reallocated employment between firms towards more …

We simultaneously assess the contributions to productivity of three sources of research and development spillovers …