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 …

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 …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … explains as much of the variation in outcomes-sales, profits, and labor productivity and total factor productivity … survival rates and faster sales growth. The effect of business practices is robust to including many measures of the owner …

such experiment with large firms. Early results show how much difference improving management practices can make. Recent … is a positive correlation between better management practices and higher productivity, it is not clear whether this …

Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving … management practices adopted in the original experimental plants had been dropped, there was still a large and significant gap in … control plants, suggesting lasting impacts of effective management interventions. Second, while few management practices had …

Management has a large effect on the productivity of large firms. But does management matter in micro and small firms … the variation in outcomes - sales, profits and labor productivity and TFP - in microenterprises as in larger enterprises …. Panel data from three countries indicate that better business practices predict higher survival rates and faster sales …

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 …

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 …