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Management practices: the impact on company performance

Nicholas Bloom, Stephen Dorgan, John Dowdy, Tom Rippin and John Van Reenen


There are wide and persistent differences in productivity across firms and countries. A new CEP study - conducted jointly with McKinsey & Company - uses a pioneering approach to measure management practices and assess their importance in driving these variations in economic performance.


June 2005     Paper Number CEPCP177

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