We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million …-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade Organization. Chinese import competition had two effects: first, it led … account for around 15% of European technology upgrading between 2000-2007. Rising Chinese import competition also led to falls …

management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality … (part of which stems from the larger covariance between management with firm size as competition strengthens); and (iii) a …

: competition, business environment, learning spillovers and human capital. Collectively, these drivers account for about a third of …

. Competition, governance, human capital and informational frictions help account for the variation in management …

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 …