the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity …

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

In this paper we examine the causal impact of competition on management quality. We analyze the hospital sector where … geographic proximity is a key determinant of competition, and English public hospitals where political competition can be used to … survival rates from emergency heart attack admissions (AMI). More importantly, we find that higher competition (as indicated by …

In the last CentrePiece, John Van Reenen stressed the importance of competition and labour market flexibility for … innovation more directly - through tax credits for business spending on research and development. …

) for workers? Many critics of “neo-libéralisme sauvage” have argued that increased competition from globalisation is … workers. These findings are inconsistent with the view that competition, globalisation and “Anglo-Saxon” management practices …

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 …

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

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 …