Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … 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 …

whether greater product market competition increases decentralization. For example, tougher competition may make local manager … competitiveness of product markets, one explanation for the trend towards decentralization could be increased competition. Of course … find that competition does indeed seem to foster greater decentralization …