Measuring Organizational Capital

Oliver Ludewig and Dieter Sadowski

Schmalenbach Business Review (sbr), 2009, vol. 61, issue 4, 393-412

Abstract: Firms develop their organizational practices to realize returns from given and marketable resources. Implementing effective practices requires substantial up-front investment. We approximate the economic relevance of establishment-specific organizational capital by using a two-step procedure. First, we extract an establishment-specific performance differential from a within-panel estimator. Second, we explain the variation in this differential by using organizational and control variables. Our results make it possible for us to predict the contribution of organizational practices to the performance differential. We label this part of the firm-specific performance differential “organizational capital”. Our results indicate that organizational capital has a substantial impact on performance.

Keywords: Managerial Economics; Organizational Capital; Organizational Design; Production Function (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D24 L23 M29 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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