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Management Project Overview
Research summary (overview of all the manufacturing work)
Material for running your own survey Fun Stuff Survey software Quotes and Video Project planning guide Some Press coverage Other key survey material My favorite article
Manufacturing management During the Summers of 2004 to 2009 teams of about 80 MBAs and postgraduates in the UK, Canada and Australia surveyed around 7000 firms in the US, Europe, Asia, Australasia and South America to collect the first international data on management practices and organizational structures: - Management Report showing management practices across firms and countries - Academic paper explaining the methodology (QJE paper, note this uses 2004 data) Anonymized data - Paper showing well managed firms treat their employees better - Paper showing well managed firms are more energy efficient
Hospitals management During the Fall of 2006 a team of students ran a management survey on around 150 public (NHS) and private hospitals in the UK to collect comparable data on management practices in the public and private sectors. They found better managed hospitals had lower case-adjusted mortality rates (and here’s one example why), and that hospitals facing more competition were typically better managed. - Management practices in hospitals
Retail management During Summer 2009 a team of about 12 people from the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity managed by Daniela Scur are running a cross-country retail management survey working with the LSE and Stanford team using our standard evaluate methodology. The draft report will be available in Spring 2010. Please contact me or Daniela Scur for details
Schools and Hospitals management In Summer 2009 Rebecca Homkes and Raffaella Sadun are leading a team of 30 MBAs and postgraduates running a large cross-country survey of management practices in high-schools and general hospitals across the US, Canada, UK, France, Germany, Italy and Sweden. The draft report will be available in Spring 2010. Please contact me or Rebecca Homkes for details.
Management field experiments A joint Berkeley, Stanford and World Bank team is running management practice field experiment in India. The project is working with 20 larger firms (median of 250 employees and 3 production plants) to provide randomized free management consultancy to a treatment group alongside a control group. We are monitoring both groups and evaluating the impact of improved management on firm performance. The management treatment is being carried out by a leading international consulting firm delivering a six month change management program. This treatment is based on a standard commercial consultancy product delivered to manufacturing firms in Asia, Europe and the US. The research will investigate the impact this treatment has on management practices, organizational structure and performance of firms, and the correlation of this with other local factors like skills, regulation, and competitor and international exposure to management best-practice. Kick-off video Non-technical initial overview
Eastern European management The EBRD and World Bank have run a management and organization survey as part of their BEEPS global firm-level survey. This has collected management data on a number of transitional countries, and the draft report will be available in the EBRD’s Transition Report in early 2010. Please contact me or Helena Schweiger for details.
Census data on management practices We are also working with the US and Canadian Census Bureaus to try and run large-scale national census surveys on management practices. The idea is to collect 10,000s of samples to understand in detail the cause of consequences of management practices across regions, firm-sizes, industries and worker skill levels.
Country management extensions We have helped a number of national Governments and overseas research institutes run management surveys to facilitate international comparisons and develop national policies for improving management practices and productivity. So far Australia, Canada, Chile, Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and New Zealand have all funded and run national management surveys. We are happy to provide full assistance in terms of training material, software, guidance and training personal to anyone thinking of extending this to other countries. If you are interested please drop me an e-mail.
Teaching My teaching page has the full set of lecture notes for a short-course of management practices John Van Reenen and I delivered to Stanford GSB MBA students. These may be helpful for people interested in teaching management practices with a data-driven international approach. We are developing this material into a longer lecture course, with the eventual aim to produce a book broadly overview the management research methodology and results.
I wish to thank our extremely generous funders: the Advanced Institute of Management Research, the Alfred Sloan Foundation, the Anglo-German Foundation, the Economic & Social Research Council, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, the Freedman Spogli Institute, the World Bank, the International Growth Centre, the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research, and the Murty family.
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Nicholas Bloom
Regional Manager Dunder Mifflin, Scranton Branch |
