Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; Jarmin, Ron S.; Saporta-Eksten, Itay

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2291607

Cited by 36 publications

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“…Because answering the survey is mandatory (like the ASM) we obtained an 85% response rate from about 40,000 plants. Preliminary results from MOPs are contained in Bloom et al (). In MOPS, as with the WMS, we scored highly those responses indicating heavy data collection and monitoring, extensive and stretching targets, and aggressive performance incentives.…”

Section: Management and The World Management Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT

Bloom

Lemos

Sadun

et al. 2014

Journal of the European Economic Association

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Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent total factor productivity (TFP) differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has been learned empirically and theoretically from the WMS and other 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 performance at the level of the firm and the nation. Competition, governance, human capital, and informational frictions help account for the variation in management. We make some suggestions for both policy and future research. (JEL: L2, M2, O14, O32, O33)

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Section: Management and The World Management Surveymentioning

confidence: 99%

JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT

Bloom

Lemos

Sadun

et al. 2014

Journal of the European Economic Association

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“…Studies from other countries have found significant differences in the unweighted management scores between different geographical areas (i.e. Bloom et al (2012); Bloom et al (2013)). Based on Table 2, which provides descriptive statistics of the FMOP data, these differences are not as apparent between the Finnish large areas.…”

Section: Descriptive Statisticsmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…The Finnish scores are weighted using industry-level poststratification weights. Germany (Broszeit et al 2019) and the USA (Bloom et al 2013).…”

Section: International Comparisonsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Management Practices and Allocation of Employment: Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing

Ohlsbom

Maliranta²

2020

International Journal of the Economics of Business

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We analyse variation in the management practices across countries and across regions within a country. For crosscountry comparisons we use the Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) to calculate a management score for Finnish manufacturing that is compared to corresponding measures obtained from similar data in the US and Germany. Scores measured by unweighted averages of the establishments in these countries show that Finland is only slightly behind the US and on par with those of Germany. With the FMOP data, we then perform an Olley-Pakes decomposition of the management score using a moment-based estimation procedure. Our decomposition shows no statistically significant differences in the unweighted average scores between Finnish regions, but reveal some significant differences in the employment weighted averages (i.e. aggregate scores) that can be attributed to the differences in the allocation of the labour force between establishments within regions.

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“…Management and organisation-related analyses in a Resource Based View (RBV) context argue that ICT should be considered as an organisational capability and find that ICT capabilities increase firm performance (Bharadwaj 2000, Santhanam and Hartono 2003, Tippins and Sohi 2003. Economic studies in the field generally find that both computer skills and high-level communication skills endowments are positively associated with higher firm productivity and higher wage premia for workers (Dickerson and Green 2004, MacCrory et al's 2015, Bloom et al's 2014.…”

Section: Ict Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…They find that different skills indeed command different wage levels (although in a non-linear fashion), and that such wage effects depend on both the actual use of ICT in the occupation and the ICT intensity of the industry. Finally, Bloom et al's (2014) analysis based on a recent Census Bureau survey of management practices in the US finds that more structured management practices are highly associated with higher levels of ICT intensity. They find that structured management is strongly correlated with superior performance in terms of productivity and profitability as well as innovation and employment growth, and that management practices vary substantially across establishments.…”

Section: Ict Skillsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Skills and global value chains

Grundke

Jamet

Kalamova

et al. 2017

OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers

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Management in America

Cited by 36 publications

References 19 publications

JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT

JEEA-FBBVA LECTURE 2013: THE NEW EMPIRICAL ECONOMICS OF MANAGEMENT

Management Practices and Allocation of Employment: Evidence from Finnish Manufacturing

Skills and global value chains

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