Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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

A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm … performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting … on modern management practices to a randomly chosen set of treatment plants and compared their performance to the control …