Abstract

We analyse variation in the management practices across countries and across regions within a country. For cross-country comparisons we use the Finnish Management and Organizational Practices Survey (FMOP) to calculate a management score for Finnish manufacturing that is compared to corresponding measures obtained from similar data in the US and Germany. Scores measured by unweighted averages of the establishments in these countries show that Finland is only slightly behind the US and on par with those of Germany. With the FMOP data, we then perform an Olley-Pakes decomposition of the management score using a moment-based estimation procedure. Our decomposition shows no statistically significant differences in the unweighted average scores between Finnish regions, but reveal some significant differences in the employment weighted averages (i.e. aggregate scores) that can be attributed to the differences in the allocation of the labour force between establishments within regions.

摘要

我们分析了国家/地区和国家/地区内不同地区的管理实践的差异。对于跨国比较，我们使用芬兰管理和组织实践调查（FMOP）来计算芬兰制造业的管理得分，并将其与从美国和德国的类似数据中获得的相应措施进行比较。根据这些国家/地区企业的未加权平均值测得的分数表明，芬兰仅略微落后于美国，与德国持平。利用FMOP数据，然后我们使用基于矩的估计程序对管理得分进行Olley-Pakes分解。我们的分解显示芬兰各地区之间的未加权平均分在统计上没有显着差异，但揭示了就业加权平均数的一些显着差异（即