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What drives differences in management?
Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011641779
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What Drives Differences in Management?
Bloom, Nicholas - 2017
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012957488
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Information Constraints and Technology Efficiency: Field Experiments Benchmarking Firms Website Performance
Adem, Anwar; Kneller, Richard; Li, Cher - 2023
This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377432
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Impact of B2C E-Commerce on Small Retailers in Thailand : An Investigation Into Profitability, Operating Efficiency, and Employment Generation
Kizhakkacharuvil John, Varughese - 2019
-term, medium-term, and long-term periods. However, the operating efficiency of the firms measured in terms of operating expenses …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012895736
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Information constraints and technology efficiency : field experiments benchmarking firms website performance
Adem, Anwar; Kneller, Richard; Li, Cher - 2023
This study examines the influence of information constraints on firms' efficiency in using digital technologies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014284795
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakis, Emmanuel - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265992
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Dauerbrenner Digitalisierung - der Handel im Umbruch
Rumscheidt, Sabine - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 01, pp. 38-41
Das Thema Digitalisierung im Handel ist aktueller denn je, nicht nur in Bezug auf den Onlinehandel und die Auswirkungen auf den lokalen Absatz, sondern auch mit Blick auf die vielen neuen Möglichkeiten, die die digitalen Technologien dem stationären Handel bieten.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011795687
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Timing of technology adoption and product market competition
Milliou, Chrysovalantou; Petrakēs, Emmanuēl - 2009
This paper examines how product market competition affects firms' timing of adopting a new technology as well as whether the market provides sufficient adoption incentives. It shows that adoption dates differ not only among symmetric firms but also among markets with Cournot and Bertrand...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003854416
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Does product market competition lead firms to decentralize?
Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009506959
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The Role of Research Orientation for Attracting Competitive Research Funding
Hottenrott, Hanna - 2011
This article studies the role of research orientation for attracting research grants at higher education institutions in Germany. Traditionally research activities were funded by the institutions' core budget. More recently, extramural research funding has become increasingly important. Besides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123509