TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Bloom, Nicholas
AU  - Brynjolfsson, Erik
AU  - Foster, Lucia
AU  - Jarmin, Ron
AU  - Patnaik, Megha
AU  - Saporta-Eksten, Itay
AU  - Reenen, John Van
        TI  - What Drives Differences in Management?
        PY  - 2017/Apr/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 10724
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp10724
        AB  - 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. 
        KW  - management
KW  - productivity
KW  - competition
KW  - learning
        ER  -