%0 Report
        %A Bloom, Nicholas
%A Brynjolfsson, Erik
%A Foster, Lucia
%A Jarmin, Ron
%A Patnaik, Megha
%A Saporta-Eksten, Itay
%A Reenen, John Van
        %T What Drives Differences in Management?
        %D 2017
        %8 2017 Apr
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 10724
        %U https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10724
        %X 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. 
        %K management
%K productivity
%K competition
%K learning