This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational … (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition leads firms to flatten their hierarchies, i.e., (i) firms reduce …

competition is weak and/or when (b) family-owned firms pass management control down to the eldest sons (primo geniture). European … firms report lower levels of competition, while French and British firms also report substantially higher levels of primo … market competition and family firms account for about half of the long tail of badly managed firms and up to two thirds of …

, while despite possible information frictions competition typically delivers similar borrower welfare to non-profit lending …

practices may be impeding the development of Central Asian transition countries. We find that competition, multinational … continued opening of markets to domestic and foreign competition, privatisation of state-owned firms and increased levels of …

theories of HRM. We look at some of the determinants of HRM -- risk, competition, ownership and regulation. The largest section …

non-hierarchical religions and product market competition are also associated with more decentralization. Together these …