Management practices across firms and nations

By Nicholas Bloom, S. Dorgan, John J. Dowdy, John Van Reenen, Tom Rippin. 2005

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Creating value from intellectual assets (2008, background): “…assets discarded by big companies as being non-core business activities.5 While this explanation might be valid for such special high-technology firms, recent evidence shows that industry in the United States is also characterised by a long tail of poorly performing companies (Bloom et al., 2005).”
Minimum Wages and Firm Profitability (2006, unknown): “In this case, controlling for capital intensity is important in allowing for differential fixed costs across firms, and that is what we do empirically in the regression-corrected difference-in-difference estimates.”
Modern Management: Good for the Environment or just Hot Air? (2010, unknown): “Bloom and Van Reenen (2006) gives examples and more details on these practices.”
The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals (2015, unknown): “In recent work we have developed a survey tool for quantifying management practices (Bloom and Van Reenen, 2007; Bloom, Genakos, Sadun and Van Reenen, 2012).”