the various dimensions and drivers of management practices and analyzes how they are related to productivity. This is an … important topic to investigate, given the lagging levels of productivity growth in the region. If management practices can boost … management practices are associated with higher levels of productivity in all countries, and it is the impact of improved …

made reluctance for companies. I found out empirical relations between IT investment and corporate productivity. Analyses … of productivity revealed low productivity among some business types and fields, where significantly fewer benefits were … being produced by IT investment. Based on these results, I showed how productivity improvement supported by IT investment …

longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … management practices on productivity in German manufacturing. …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of …

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 adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …