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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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New Approaches to Measuring Management and Firm Organization

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

countries in recent years. This has been used in many pieces of research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We discuss the …

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Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize?

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

There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This...

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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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The Organization of Firms Across Countries

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We argue that social capital as proxied by trust increases aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost...

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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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Innovation, Reallocation and Growth

Acemoglu, Daron; Akcigit, Ufuk; Bloom, Nicholas; Kerr, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

We build a model of firm-level innovation, productivity growth and reallocation featuring endogenous entry and exit. A key feature is the selection between high- and low-type firms, which differ in terms of their innovative capacity. We estimate the parameters of the model using detailed US...

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The Future of the German Industrial Relations Model

Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2015

the areas of Germany's traditional industrial strength. This is explained by the nature of high performance work systems …

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The End of National Models in Employment Relations?

Marsden, David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

The erosion of a number of national systems of employment relations, and the evidence from large scale workplace surveys has brought attention to the considerable diversity of employment systems within major economies. This essay applies the theory of evolutionary games to explain the diffusion...

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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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