What Drives Differences in Management?

Arbeitspapier

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as that accounted for by R&D, and twice as much as explained by IT. We find evidence for four "drivers" of management: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of the dispersion of structured management practices.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10724

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Management of Technological Innovation and R&D ; Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes
• Thema: learning ; competition ; productivity ; management

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Bloom, Nicholas ; Brynjolfsson, Erik ; Foster, Lucia ; Jarmin, Ron ; Patnaik, Megha ; Saporta-Eksten, Itay ; Van Reenen, John
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
• (wo): Bonn
• (wann): 2017

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161347
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:42 MEZ