Do management interventions last? Evidence from India
This paper revisited Indian weaving firms 9 years after a randomized experiment that changed their management practices.
Abstract
The authors revisited Indian weaving firms 9 years after a randomized experiment that changed their management practices. While about half of the 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, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Few practices had spread across the firms in the study, but many had spread within firms. Managerial turnover and the lack of director time were two of the most cited reasons for the drop in management practices, highlighting the importance of key employees.
This is an output of the World Bank’s Strategic Research Program
Citation
Bloom, Nicolas, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie and John Roberts (2020) “Do management interventions last? Evidence from India”, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12(2): 198-219.