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Trading places: employers, unions and the manufacture of voice
Bryson, Alex; Gomez, Rafael; Willman, Paul - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
– especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer financial performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071128
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Participation in organisations: economic approaches
Marsden, David; Cañibano, Almudena - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
Under the auspices of the debate about high performance work systems, it has been suggested that the evidence of … economics broadly understood. It includes a meta-survey of research on the effects of participation on performance since the … argued that this is due in part to consideration of a wider range of performance outcomes, improved data and methods, and to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071550
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Interoperability and market foreclosure in the European Microsoft case
Kuhn, Kai Uwe; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008
In this paper we discuss some of the most important economic issues raised in European Commission vs. Microsoft (2004) concerning the market for work group servers. In our view, the most important economic issues relate to (a) foreclosure incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746007
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Is there a market for work group servers? Evaluating market level demand elasticities using micro and macro models
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper contains an empirical analysis demand for “work-group” (or low-end) servers. Servers are at the centre of many US and EU anti-trust debates, including the Hewlett-Packard/Compaq merger and investigations into the activities of Microsoft. One question in these policy decisions is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071318
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The growth of network computing : quality adjusted price changes for network servers
Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
In this paper we investigate the evolution of quality adjusted prices for servers motivated by two facts. First, the productivity acceleration in the US economy since the mid 1990s is closely linked to spread of information technology of which networked computing is a large component. Second,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071546
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Do private equity owned firms have better management practices?
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e … associated with broad based operational improvement in management rather than just stronger performance incentives. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745737
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746109
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746415
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Human resource management and productivity
Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (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)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746475
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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?
Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746493