The organization of firms across countries

Quarterly Journal of Economics

Volumn 127, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1663-1705

  Bloom, Nicholas ^a,b   Sadun, Raffaella ^c   Van Reenen, John ^a,d  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAPITAL FLOW; DECENTRALIZATION; INVESTMENT; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; PRODUCTIVITY; SOCIAL CAPITAL;

ASIA; EUROPE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84870307740     PISSN: 00335533     EISSN: 15314650     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/qje/qje029     Document Type: Article

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