World Management Survey at 18: Lessons and the Way Forward

The power of prediction: predictive analytics, workplace complements, and business performance

“…Our findings all hold when controlling for a wide range of other management practices previously associated with productivity (e.g., Bloom et al 2019, Scur et al 2021, including those particularly focused on using data in decision making McElheran 2016, 2019).…”

Unlocking Sustainable Private Sector Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

“…Research shows that management practices explain a major part of the gap in total factor productivity between countries. Better-managed firms have higher operating profits, are more outward-oriented and invest more in research and development (Bloom et al, 2019;Hyland et al, 2019; see Scur et al, 2021, for a summary). Better management practices may also improve the productivity of skilled labour (Gosnell et al, 2020) and energy intensity may decline while investments in energy efficiency may increase (De Haas et al, 2021;Schweiger and Stepanov, 2022).…”

Elgar Introduction to Designing Organizations

“…In a different perspective, while each organization may be unique some core "good management" practices are universal in dealing with probable contingencies that can arise, meaning that the absence of these tends to be problematic (Scur et al, 2021). Contingencies count and the nature of the organization of work influences design choices for dealing with these contingencies.…”