Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India

Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while...

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Main Authors:	Bloom, Nicholas, Mahajan, Aprajit, McKenzie, David, Roberts, John
Format:	Working Paper
Language:	English
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2018
Subjects:	MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION PRODUCTIVITY WEAVING FIRMS
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346001518549616744/Do-management-interventions-last-evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29373

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spelling	okr-10986-293732021-06-08T14:42:48Z Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India Bloom, Nicholas Mahajan, Aprajit McKenzie, David Roberts, John MANAGEMENT ORGANIZATION PRODUCTIVITY WEAVING FIRMS Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in practices between the treatment and control plants. Likewise, there remained a significant performance gap between treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had demonstrably spread across the firms in the study, many had spread within firms, from the experimental plants to the non-experimental plants, suggesting limited spillovers between firms but large spillovers within firms. Third, managerial turnover and the lack of director time were two of the most cited reasons for the drop in management practices in experimental plants, highlighting the importance of key employees. 2018-02-16T21:44:06Z 2018-02-16T21:44:06Z 2018-02 Working Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/346001518549616744/Do-management-interventions-last-evidence-from-India http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29373 English Policy Research Working Paper;No. 8339 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper South Asia India
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description	Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 the plants were revisited and the authors found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in practices between the treatment and control plants. Likewise, there remained a significant performance gap between treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had demonstrably spread across the firms in the study, many had spread within firms, from the experimental plants to the non-experimental plants, suggesting limited spillovers between firms but large spillovers within firms. Third, managerial turnover and the lack of director time were two of the most cited reasons for the drop in management practices in experimental plants, highlighting the importance of key employees.
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author	Bloom, Nicholas Mahajan, Aprajit McKenzie, David Roberts, John
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title	Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India
title_short	Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India
title_full	Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India
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publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Do Management Interventions Last? : Evidence from India

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