The New Empirical Economics of Management

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos (), Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John van Reenen
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Daniela Scur: Oxford University

No 13-031, Discussion Papers from Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research

Abstract: Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firmlevel management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent 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. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management.

Keywords: Keywords: management; organization; and productivity (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L2 M2 O14 O32 O33 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-04
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