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Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air?

bloom, nicholas; Martin, Ralf; Sadun, Raffaella; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Research trends in nanotechnology studies across geo-economic areas

Coccia, Mario; Finardi, Ugo; Margon, Diego - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2010

research can provide vital findings to support research and innovation policies aimed at improving the development of this …

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Evolutionary dynamics and scientific flows of nanotechnology research across geo-economic areas

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2011

The purpose of this paper is to analyze, by concentration measures, metrics of dispersion and heterogeneity, the dynamics of the production of scientific output in nanosciences and nanotechnologies across worldwide economic players. The main result is that the concentration ratio of the...

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Gli approcci biologici nell’economia dell’innovazione

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2005

The innovation is a main variable of the economic growth, but the origin and diffusion of innovations are functions of … economic thought and the development of the economics of innovation. This research shows as, since 1957 the patterns of …

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

bloom, nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; van Reenen, John; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 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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Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work

bandiera, oriana; Sadun, Raffaella; Prat, Andrea - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013

CEOs affect the performance of the firms they manage, and family CEOs seem to weaken it. Yet little is known about what top executives actually do, and whether it differs by firm ownership. We study CEOs in the Indian manufacturing sector, where family ownership is widespread and the...

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Do Private Equity Owned Firms Have Better Management Practices?

Bloom, Nick; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from over 4,000 medium sized manufacturing firms across Asia, Europe and the US. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level performance (e.g. productivity, profitability and stock market...

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The origins of the economics of innovation: the Rae’s contribution

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2004

Nowadays the innovation is one of the most important determinant for increasing the wealth of the nations. The patterns … of technological innovation are studied by Economics of innovation. The aim of this paper is to prove that the origins of … the Economics of innovation go back to many years before Schumpeter’s theory (1911), thank to the original studies of Rae …

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Population and technological innovation: the optimal interaction across modern countries

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2013

outputs vs. population growth tends to be affected by decreasing returns of technological innovation to population growth. …

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Macchine, lavoro e accrescimento della ricchezza. Riflessioni sul progresso tecnico, occupazione e sviluppo economico nel pensiero economico del Settecento ed Ottocento

Coccia, Mario - Istituto di Ricerca sulla Crescita Economica … - 2007

This paper presents the origins of the Economics of innovation describing the economic thought of the economists in the … which are relevant, put forward the basis of the modern discipline of the Economics of innovation. …

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