and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in management practices and … decentralization between countries, but especially within countries. Much of the poorer average management quality in countries like …

A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what … tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one of the main mechanisms is through improving management practices … management quality boosts productivity. …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firmlevel management practices data across … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management … worse managed than those in several other developed countries. We also find substantial variation in management practices … product market competition and higher worker skills are associated with better management practices. Less regulated labor …

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 …