: 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 …

) for workers? Many critics of “neo-libéralisme sauvage” have argued that increased competition from globalisation is … more competitive and/or who are more productive, however, do not have significantly worse work-life balance for their … 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 …

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 …

We examine the economic analysis of the relationship between innovation and product market competition. First, we give … idea that innovation rises and then eventually falls as the intensity of competition increases. Thirdly, we look at recent … applications and development of the framework in the areas of competition policy, international trade and structural Industrial …