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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

We use an innovative methodology to measure management practices in over 300 manufacturing firms in the UK. We then match this management data to production and energy usage information for establishments owned by these firms. We find that establishments in better managed firms are significantly...

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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs

Saint-Paul, Gilles - CESifo - 2001

This paper studies a model of the distribution of income under bounded needs. Utility derived from any given good reaches a bliss point at a finite consumption level of that good. On the other hand, introducing new varieties always increases utility. It is assumed that each variety is owned by a...

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Half a Century of Public Software Institutions: Open Source as a Solution to Hold-Up Problem

Schwarz, Michael; Takhteyev, Yuri - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2009

We argue that the intrinsic inefficiency of proprietary software has historically created a space for alternative institutions that provide software as a public good. We discuss several sources of such inefficiency, focusing on one that has not been described in the literature: the...

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Experience, Innovation and Productivity - Empirical Evidence from Italy's Slowdown

Daveri, Francesco; Parisi, Maria Laura - CESifo - 2010

We investigate the role of workers’ and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

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Incentives and Creativity in Groups

Ramm, Joachim; Tjøtta, Sigve; Torsvik, Gaute - CESifo - 2013

It has been argued that monetary incentives restrain individual creativity and hamper performance in jobs requiring out of the box thinking. This paper reports from an experiment designed to test if the negative incentive effect is present also when individuals work together to solve such...

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Toward an Understanding of Learning by Doing: Evidence from an Automobile Assembly Plant

Levitt, Steven; list, john; Syverson, Chad - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012

Productivity improvements within establishments (e.g., factories, mines, or retail stores) are an important source of aggregate productivity growth. Past research has documented that learning by doing-productivity improvements that occur in concert with production increases-is one source of such...

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Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations

Egelman, Carolyn D.; Epple, Dennis; Argote, Linda; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm...

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Agglomerative Forces and Cluster Shapes

Kerr, William R.; Kominers, Scott Duke - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010

We model spatial clusters of similar firms. Our model highlights how agglomerative forces lead to localized, individual connections among firms, while interaction costs generate a defined distance over which attraction forces operate. Overlapping firm interactions yield agglomeration clusters...

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Acquisitions, Productivity, and Profitability: Evidence from the Japanese Cotton Spinning Industry

Braguinsky, Serguey; Ohyama, Atsushi; okazaki, tetsuji; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

We explore how changes in ownership and managerial control affect the productivity and profitability of producers. Using detailed operational, financial, and ownership data from the Japanese cotton spinning industry at the turn of the last century, we find a more nuanced picture than the...

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Agglomeration and Innovation

Carlino, Gerald; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014

This chapter reviews academic research on the connections between agglomeration and innovation. We first describe the … conceptual distinctions between invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data …, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these …

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