Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

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Nick Bloom, Nick Bloom
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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm-level productivity, profitability, Tobin's Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross-country differences with US firms on average better managed than European firms, and significant within-country differences with a long tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo geniture due to the influence of Norman legal origin and generous estate duty for family firms. We calculate that product market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of the American advantage over Europe in management practices.

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Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
2006, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics and Political Science
electronic resource / in English
Cover of: Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
Measuring and explaining management practices across firms and countries
2006, National Bureau of Economic Research
in English

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Title from PDF file (viewed on Mar. 29, 2006).

"March 2006."

Includes bibliographical references.

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London
Series
CEP discussion paper -- no. 716, Discussion paper (London School of Economics and Political Science. Centre for Economic Performance : Online) -- no. 716.

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HC10

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OL31758786M
ISBN 10
0753019426
LCCN
2006615470

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OL5891661W

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