Management matters for explaining differentials in productivity between and within countries and sectors. Across countries, management practices ? as measured in the World Management Survey (WMS) ? explain on average around 30% of the gap in total factor productivity with the United States (Bloom et al, 2016); and experimental evidence from Indian textile plants supports a causal interpretation (Bloom et [?]

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20 July 2020

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LSE Business Review

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/07/20/firms-closer-to-universities-tend-to-have-better-management-practices/

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