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The Age (Australia):
For faster growth, companies need better chief executives

18 September 2016

A paper by Nicholas Bloom and others, from Stanford University, finds that well-managed firms perform better than their peers and make a greater contribution to a nation's total-factor productivity. ... Bloom and colleagues estimate that, across all countries, 29 per cent of the difference in productivity between the US - which has the highest management effectiveness scores - and other nations can be explained by how well businesses are run.

This article was published online by the Age (Australia) on September 18, 2016
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Related publications
Management Practices Across Firms and Countries, Nicholas Bloom, Christos Genakos, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen, Centre for Economic Performance Discussion Paper No.1109, December 2011
Management Practices: the impact on company performance, Nicholas Bloom, Stephen Dorgan, John Dowdy, Tom Rippin and John Van Reenen. Article in CentrePiece Volume 10, Issue 2, Summer 2005

Related links
Nicholas Bloom webpage
Christos Genakos webpage
Raffaella Sadun webpage
John Van Reenen webpage
Growth Programme webpage

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