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International data on measuring management practices

Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen


We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and organizational practices. We contrast the strengths and weaknesses of "open ended questions" (like the World Management Survey) with "closed questions" (like the MOPS). For this type of data, open ended questions give higher quality responses, but are more costly than closed question-based surveys.


1 May 2016


American Economic Review 106(5) , pp.152-156, 2016


DOI: 10.1257/aer.p20161058

http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/67379/

This Journal article is published under the centre's Growth programme.