The role of management practices in closing the productivity gap - A Closing the Gap, Crossing the Levels Ideas Factory Project

这个项目将检查一些关键原因，相对较差的部分服务部门的选择比较英国与美国的生产力。这项工作的独特特点是试图通过纳入来自不同分析层次的变量，包括国家、部门、公司和工作组的变量，来模拟这种生产力不足的原因。该项目特别侧重于管理实践在生产力差距中的作用。例如，在英国经营的美资零售店比在英国经营的美资零售店生产率更高，是不是因为美国公司更有效地实施和使用适当的管理实践？该项目采用跨学科的方法，包括案例研究和调查方法的混合。该项目将尝试：专注于英国服务部门的选定重要部分，通过检查公司和网站内管理实践的作用，专注于微观层面，但包括更多的宏观变量作为模型的一部分，探索来自不同学科的技术和理论，比较英国和美国拥有的公司在英国工作。

This project will examine some of the key reasons for the relatively poor productivity of selected parts of the service sector comparing the UK with the USA. The distinctive feature of this work is to try to model the reasons for this productivity shortfall by incorporating variables from different levels of analysis, including national, sector, firm and workgroup variables. The project focuses in particular on the role of management practices in the productivity gap. For example, is it the case that US-owned retail outlets operating in the UK are more productive than UK-owned outlets here because the US companies implement and use appropriate management practices more effectively? The project adopts an inter-disciplinary approach and involves a mix of case study and survey methods.This project will attempt to: focus on selected significant parts of the service sector in the UK focus on the micro level by examining the role of management practices within companies and sites, but including more macro variables as part of the models explore techniques and theories from different academic disciplines compare UK and USA owned companies working in the UK.