Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
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| ID | 23388200 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Nena Bloom (0000-0002-1600-7819), Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Anoop Mahajan (0000-0001-9448-180X), Aprajit Mahajan, David Mckenzie (0000-0002-1885-2426), John Roberts (0000-0002-0059-430X) |
| Ano | 2013 |
| Volume | 128 |
| Fascículo | 1 |
| Páginas | 1-51 |
| Data de publicação | 2013-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Não |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | The Quarterly Journal of Economics (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0033-5533 • E-ISSN: 1531-4650 |
| Editora | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/qje/qjs044 |
| OpenAlex | W4214506270 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 135 |
| Referências citadas | 38 |
A long-standing question is whether differences in management practices across firms can explain differences in productivity, especially in developing countries where these spreads appear particularly large. To investigate this, we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on management practices to randomly chosen treatment plants and compared their performance to a set of control plants. We find that adopting these management practices raised productivity by 17% in the first year through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory, and within three years led to the opening of more production plants. Why had the firms not adopted these profitable practices previously? Our results suggest that informational barriers were the primary factor explaining this lack of adoption. Also, because reallocation across firms appeared to be constrained by limits on managerial time, competition had not forced badly managed firms to exit.
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