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Organizational Economics with Cognitive Costs

Garicano, Luis; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

Organizational economics has advanced along two parallel tracks, one concerned with motivating agents with diverging objectives, the other--less developed--with coordinating agents under cognitive limits. This survey focuses on the second strand and attempts to bring the two strands together....

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The Firm as the Locus of Social Comparisons: Internal Labor Markets versus Up-or-out

Auriol, Emmanuelle; Friebel, Guido; Lammers, Frauke - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

We suggest a parsimonious dynamic agency model in which workers have status concerns. A firm is a promotion hierarchy in which a worker’s status depends on past performance. We investigate the optimality of two types of promotion hierarchies: (i) internal labor markets, in which agents have a...

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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

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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 … recent work on management practices. Our preliminary results suggest that about a quarter of cross-country and within …-country TFP gaps can be accounted for by management practices. Management seems to matter both qualitatively and quantitatively …

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Distance to the Efficiency Frontier and FDI Spillovers

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

We establish that domestically owned firms in two alternative models of emerging market economies, the Czech Republic and Russia, have not been converging to the technological frontier set by foreign owned firms. In both countries, the distance of domestic firms to the frontier grew (in all...

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Foreign Investment, Corporate Ownership, and Development: Are Firms in Emerging Markets Catching Up to the World Standard?

Sabirianova Peter, Klara; Svejnar, Jan; Terrell, Katherine - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...

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The land that Lean manufacturing forgot? Management practices in transition countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Schweiger, Helena; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

workforce education should promote better management, and ultimately faster economic growth. …We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian … transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are …

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FDI Spillovers in the Chinese Manufacturing Sector: Evidence of firm heterogeneity

Abraham, Filip; Konings, Jozef; Slootmaekers, Veerle - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

indirect effects of foreign direct investment on measured firm level productivity depend on a number of firm specific features …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas; Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

-level productivity, profitability, Tobin’s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross …We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

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Computing Crime: Information Technology, Police Effectiveness and the Organization of Policing

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

How does information technology (IT) affect the organization of police work? How does it in turn affect police crime-fighting effectiveness? To answer these questions, we construct a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. We find that while IT adoption had substantial...

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