Management Practices in Korean Manufacturers: A Striking Level Difference between Production and Incentive Management

Sunghoon Chung
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Sunghoon Chung: Korea Development Institute

Korean Economic Review, 2023, vol. 39, 103-135

Abstract: This study investigates the management practices of 926 manufacturing plants in South Korea using the quantitative method by Bloom et al. (2019). The original management and organizational practices survey (MOPS) in the U.S. is revised to reflect the Korea-specific environment and merged with the Mining and Manufacturing Survey of Statistics Korea. We determine that the measured management scores vary substantially across the plants, while they change little over time. When the overall management is categorized into production and incentive management, the median score of the latter is about 56% of the former, much lower than the corresponding score ratio in the U.S. which is 92%. The structured management turns out to have a strong and positive relationship with any measure of productivity. The plants at the 90th percentile of management scores in the sample are 30.3% higher in total factor productivity than those at the 10th percentile.

Keywords: management practices; MOPS; incentive management; productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D22 D24 L25 L60 M11 M52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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