Does management matter ? evidence from India (English)

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this, the authors ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms, providing free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control plants. They find that adopting these management practices had three main effects...

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Bloom,Nicholas;

Eifert, Benn;

Mahajan, Aprajit;

Mckenzie,David J.;

Johnson,Richard John Roberts;
Document Date
2011/02/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS5573
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2011/02/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
Doc Name
Does management matter ? evidence from India
Keywords
Finance & Private Sector Development

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Bloom,Nicholas; Eifert, Benn; Mahajan, Aprajit; Mckenzie,David J.; Johnson,Richard John Roberts.

Does management matter ? evidence from India (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5573 Washington, DC: World Bank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/166241468283507372

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