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The new empirical economics of management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

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...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas; Lemos, Renata; Sadun, Raffaella; Scur, … - Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research … - 2014

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...

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Bad management: a constraint on economic development?

Lemos, Renata; Scur, Daniela - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

Are poor management practices holding back middle-income countries? The authors look at evidence for private firms and public organisations in India - in manufacturing, retail, healthcare and education.

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Coaching vs. Modeling – Advantages and Disadvantages in Public Institutions

IOSIF, Cornel Marian - In: Timisoara Journal of Economics 3 (2010) 2(10), pp. 99-106

average group performances using techniques. Identification of purposes, of the people with maximum performance and setting … procedures is to identify certain traits that make the difference between an employee with average performance and an employee … with good results, when they are transposed to other person to permit them to achieve a higher level of performance. …

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FROM THE GENERAL MANAGERIAL SKILLS TO THE SCHOOL MANAGER’S SKILLS

STAN, Cristina - In: Annals of Spiru Haret University, Economic Series 4 (2013) 3, pp. 69-76

situated in the middle of the individual and collective performance and all of us want to develop. In education, the art of …

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Managerial Functions: Leverage to Improve Performance Indicators

Adriana, Grigorescu; Cristian, Odagiu - In: Ovidius University Annals, Economic Sciences Series XI (2011) 1, pp. 867-873

This study aims to emphasize how performance indicators can be improved by implementing an appropriate management. The … the institutional performance indicators obtained for four consecutive years. The analysis of the results obtained in the … study undertaken reflects an appreciable improvement of the performance indicators over a comparable funding from the state …

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Information and the Modern Corporation

Cortada, James W. - The MIT Press

While we have been preoccupied with the latest i-gadget from Apple and with Google's ongoing expansion, we may have missed something: the fundamental transformation of whole firms and industries into giant information-processing machines. Today, more than eighty percent of workers collect and...

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Why do Management Practices Differ Across Firms and Countries?

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

Economists have long puzzled over the astounding differences in productivity between firms and countries. For example, looking at disaggregated data on U.S. manufacturing industries, Syverson (2004a) found that plants at the 90th percentile produced four times as much as the plant in the 10th...

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Modern management: good for the environment or just hot air?

Bloom, Nick; Genakos, Christos; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, … - London School of Economics (LSE) - 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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New approaches to measuring management and firm organization

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (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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