US firms out-extracted Europe on IT via management — same may hold for AI
carlbfrey · x · 2026-11-02
Citing Bloom-Sadun-Van Reenen (2012), the thread notes that in the IT era US multinationals in Europe got more out of IT than local firms under the same rules, mainly through superior people management. The author suspects these management differences persist and will matter just as much for AI returns — management practice, not tools, drives the gap.
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