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Data in action : data-driven decision making and predictive analytics in U.S. manufacturing
Brynjolfsson, Erik; McElheran, Kristina - 2019
Management in America has become significantly more data-intensive, yet the economic, organizational, and strategic implications of this shift are poorly understood. Working with the U.S. Census Bureau, we developed measures of how manufacturing firms have used data to guide decision making over...
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The Rapid Adoption of Data-Driven Decision-Making
Brynjolfsson, Erik - 2017
Recent years have seen dramatic changes in data storage and processing technologies. New opportunities to collect and leverage data have led many managers to change how they make decisions — relying less on intuition and more on data. In this paper we provide the first systematic empirical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963885
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The Effects of Outsourcing, Offshoring, and Distributed Product Development Organization on Coordinating the NPD Process
Anderson, Edward G. - 2015
of different outsourcing arrangements on the search, selection, transformation, and coordination processes involved in …
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How to implement an accurate and effective costing system in manufacturing organizations
Popesko, Boris - In: European financial and accounting journal : EFAJ 4 (2009) 4, pp. 35-49
The objective of the article is to define rules for establishing a high quality costing system to measure the costs of …, along with the nature of costs and the behavior of cost elements in major enterprises. One expectation is that different … principles of cost allocation will have to be applied to different types of costs, based on their relation to the output of a …
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Suomen tehdasteollisuuden johtamiskäytäntöjen laatu
Maliranta, Mika; Ohlsbom, Roope - 2017
There is a lack of comprehensive information on the quality of management in Finland as compared to other countries. Funded by the Strategic Research Council, the Skills, Education and the Future of Work research project has started filling this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey...
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David; Van … - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011531736
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Management practices and productivity in Germany
Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011546641
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458600
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Management practices and productivity in Germany
Broszeit, Sandra; Fritsch, Ursula; Görg, Holger; … - 2016
Based on a novel dataset, the "German Management and Organizational Practices" (GMOP) Survey, we calculate establishment specific management scores following Bloom and van Reenen as indicators of management quality. We find substantial heterogeneity in management practices across establishments...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581659
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What drives differences in management?
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641779