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Assignment Question:
A major question in the field of Business strategy / strategic management is how firms create dynamic capabilities to achieve cost leadership and successfully compete with rivals. Recent literature emphasises the role of internal factors such as management practices and organisational culture. Your individual assignment will relate to a recent evolving strand of literature on management practices:
1) Select three articles from the list below (two from the starred papers), summarise the papers and identify lessons of the papers;
2) Drawing on the papers and further research, explain how management practices relate to firm productivity, growth, decline and failure;
3) Explain how your findings may help improve on the performance of the firm where you operate
Papers / Articles
1. *Bloom, N., Lemos, R., Sadun, R., Scur, D. and Van Reenen, J., 2014. JEEA-
FBBVA Lecture 2013: The new empirical economics of management. Journal of the European Economic Association, 12(4), pp.835-876.
2. Bloom, N., Sadun, R. and Van Reenen, J., 2012. Does management really
work? Harvard business review, 90(11), pp.76-82.
3.* Roberts, J., 2018. Needed: More Economic Analyses of Management. International Journal of the Economics of Business, 25(1), pp.3-10.
4.* Teece, D.J., 2007. Explicating dynamic capabilities: the nature and
microfoundations of (sustainable) enterprise performance. Strategic management
journal, 28(13), pp.1319-1350.
5.Sadun, R., Bloom, N. and Van Reenen, J., 2017. Why do we undervalue competent management?