Bloom, Nicholas; Kretschmer, Tobias; Van Reenen, John - 2014
Many critics of free-market liberalism argue that higher product-market competition and the "Anglo-Saxon" management … management practices and work-life balance practices, surveying 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the US, France, Germany … and the UK. We find that WLB outcomes are significantly associated with better management, so that well run firms are both …