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Does Competition Raise Productivity Through Improving Management Quality?

Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what mechanism? I discuss recent empirical evidence from both large-scale databases and specific industries which suggests that tougher competition does indeed raise productivity and one...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many nonpay aspects of the employment relationship such as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy)....

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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We present a survey of recent contributions in the empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There...

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nick; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival...

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Unions and Productivity, Financial Performance and Investment: International Evidence

Metcalf, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2002

, financial performance is likely to be worse. If the product market is uncompetitive this might imply a simple transfer from … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … the productivity performance of the workplace or firm. The evidence indicates that, in the USA, workplaces with both high …

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Do Organisational Climate and Strategic Orientation Moderate the Relationship Between Human Resource Management Practices and Productivity?

Neal, Andrew; Patterson, M; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Contingency formulations of Human Resource Management (HRM) theory suggest thatthe effectiveness of HRM practices should vary across firms. This study examinedwhether the relationship between HRM practices and productivity in manufacturingcompanies is contingent upon organizational climate and...

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Organizational Climate and Company Productivity: the Role of Employee Affect and Employee Level

Patterson, M; Warr, P; West, M - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

Consistent with a growing number of models about affect and behaviour and with arecognition that perception alone provides no impetus for action, it was predicted thatassociations between company climate and productivity would be mediated by average levelof job satisfaction. In a study of 42...

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All-Star or Benchwarmer? Relative Age, Cohort Size and Career Success in the NHL

Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Zhang, Tingting - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

We analyze the performance outcomes of National Hockey League (NHL) players over 18 seasons (1990-1991 to 2007-2008) as … chiefly by supply-side factors in the form of excess cohort competition and not quality differences since the performance of … cohorts. Performance-adjusted wage losses for those born in large birth cohorts are therefore greater than the raw estimates …

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The Impact of Integration on Productivity and Welfare Distortions Under Monopolistic Competition

Dhingra, Swati; Morrow, John - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

A fundamental question in monopolistic competition theory is whether the market allocates resources efficiently. This paper generalizes the Spence-Dixit-Stiglitz framework to heterogeneous firms, addressing when the market provides optimal quantities, variety and productivity. Under constant...

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Why Has China Grown So Fast? The Role of International Technology Transfer

Reenen, John Van; Yueh, Linda - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2012

Chinese firms and their joint ventures and match this to administrative data on firm performance. To identify the causal …

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