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Small UK firms not investing in management training despite poor productivity

3 March 2016

Management is thought to play a key role in explaining this gap. In 2012, the results of a decade-long worldwide study carried out by academics at Stanford, Harvard and the LSE found the UK had more badly managed firms than better-performing competitors - and that good management skills were important drivers of high productivity.

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Related Publications
The New Empirical Economics of Management, Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Occasional Paper No.41, April 2014

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Nicholas Bloom webpage
Renata Lemos webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
Daniela Scur webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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