Differences in management quality are an important contributor to productivity differences across countries. A key … question is how to best improve poor management in developing countries. This paper tests two different approaches to improving … management in Colombian auto parts firms. The first uses intensive and expensive one-on-one consulting, while the second draws on …

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 …