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 …

Beginning in 2008, the authors conducted a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of …, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a … performance gap between treatment and control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second …