The New Empirical Economics of Management

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Nicholas Bloom

Stanford University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Renata Lemos

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

Raffaella Sadun

Harvard University - Strategy Unit; London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP); National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

Daniela Scur

Cornell University - Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management; Cornell SC Johnson College of Business

John Van Reenen

London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP); Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS); Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR)

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Date Written: May 2014

Abstract

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 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.

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Bloom, Nicholas and Lemos, Renata and Sadun, Raffaella and Scur, Daniela and Van Reenen, John Michael, The New Empirical Economics of Management (May 2014). NBER Working Paper No. w20102, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2436711

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