@TechReport{iza:izadps:dp10724,
            	author={Bloom, Nicholas and Brynjolfsson, Erik and Foster, Lucia and Jarmin, Ron and Patnaik, Megha and Saporta-Eksten, Itay and Reenen, John Van},
            	title={What Drives Differences in Management?},
            	year={2017},
	month={Apr},
            	institution={Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)},
            	address={Bonn},
            	type={IZA Discussion Paper},
            	number={10724},
            	url={https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10724},
	abstract={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. },
	keywords={management;productivity;competition;learning},
            }