What Drives Differences in Management?

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: IZA Discussion Papers ; No. 10724

Classification and Topics

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

Contributors, Places and Time

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

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/161347
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET