The emphasis in recent research on family-friendly practices has been on the determinants of their use rather
than on the nature of this usage. Yet within the institutional-based organisational adaptation perspective,
adopted in recent research, the existence of a family-friendly management cannot be automatically assumed
from the use of certain practices. This article explores through latent trait analysis whether there is any
pattern to the use of family-friendly practices, and then, having found there is, uses regression analysis to
assess the determinants of family-friendly management.
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