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Skill biased organizational change? Evidence from a panel of British and French establishments

Caroli, Eve; Van Reenen, John - Centre pour la Recherche Économique et ses … - 1999

In this paper we investigate evidence for the "skill bias" of organizational change (OC). These include the decentralization of authority, delayering of managerial functions and increased multi-tasking. We use several sources of panel data on British and French establishments. Three findings...

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Interoperability and Foreclosure in the European Microsoft Case

Kuhn, Kai-Uwe; Van Reenen, John - 2014

incentives and (b) innovation effects of the proposed remedy. We discuss the economic basis for the Commission's claims that … and argue that the effects on innovation are not unambiguously negative as Microsoft claim. We conclude with some general … implications of the case for anti-trust enforcement in high innovation sectors …

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Is distance dying at last?

Griffith, Rachel; Lee, Sokbae; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2008

Economists have long been sceptical of claims about the 'death of distance' - the idea that new technology has diminished the significance of geography for economic outcomes. Research by Sokbae Lee, Rachel Griffith and John Van Reenen, which looks at patent citations over a quarter of a century,...

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Innovation and institutional ownership

Aghion, Philippe; Van Reenen, John; Zingales, Luigi - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2009

We find that institutional ownership in publicly traded companies is associated with more innovation (measured by cite …, policy changes and disaggregating by type of owner we find that the effect of institutions on innovation does not appear to …

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How special is the special relationship?: using the impact of R&D spillovers on UK firms as a test of technology sourcing

Griffith, Rachel; Harrison, Rupert; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

How much does US-based R&D benefit other countries and through what mechanisms? We test the "technology sourcing" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using panels of UK and US firms matched to patent data we...

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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

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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New approaches to measuring management and firm organization

Bloom, Nick; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2010

We detail the methodology that we have been using to quantify managerial and organizational practices across firms and countries in recent years. This has been used in many pieces of research at the Centre for Economic Performance. We discuss the pros and cons of such survey tools, describing...

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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)....

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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...

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Identifying technology spillovers and product market rivalry

Bloom, Nick; Schankerman, Mark; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005

Government policies to support R&D are predicated on empirical evidence of R&D "spillovers" between firms. But there are two countervailing R&D spillovers: positive effects from technology spillovers and negative effects from business stealing by product market rivals. We develop a general...

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