Bloom, Nicholas
[Author]
;
Brynjolfsson, Erik
[Other];
Saporta-Eksten, Itay
[Other];
Van Reenen, John
[Other];
Foster, Lucia
[Other];
Patnaik, Megha
[Other];
Jarmin, Ron S.
[Other]National Bureau of Economic Research
imprint:
Cambridge, Mass: National Bureau of Economic Research, March 2017
Published in:NBER working paper series ; no. w23300
Extent:
1 Online-Ressource
Language:
English
DOI:
10.3386/w23300
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Description:
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 that accounted for by R&D, and twice as much as explained by IT. We find evidence for four "drivers" of management: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of the dispersion of structured management practices