| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP11717
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| DP11717 Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance |
| Adam Szeidl; Jing Cai
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| 发表日期 | 2016-12-20
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| 出版年 | 2016
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We organized business associations for the owner-managers of randomly selected young Chinese firms to study the effect of business networks on firm performance. We randomized 2,800 firms into small groups whose managers held monthly meetings for one year, and into a "no-meetings" control group. We find that: (1) The meetings increased firm revenue by 8.1 percent, and also significantly increased profit, factors, inputs, the number of partners, borrowing, and a management score; (2) These effects persisted one year after the conclusion of the meetings; and (3) Firms randomized to have better peers exhibited higher growth. We exploit additional interventions to document concrete channels. (4) Managers shared exogenous business-relevant information, particularly when they were not competitors, showing that the meetings facilitated learning from peers. (5) Managers created more business partnerships in the regular than in other one-time meetings, showing that the meetings improved supplier-client matching. (6) Firms whose managers discussed management, partners, or finance improved more in the associated domain, suggesting that the content of conversations shaped the nature of gains. |
| 主题 | Development Economics
; International Trade and Regional Economics
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| 关键词 | Business networks
Meetings
Field experiment
Peer effects
Information diffusion
Referrals
Trust
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp11717
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/540531
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Adam Szeidl,Jing Cai. DP11717 Interfirm Relationships and Business Performance. 2016.
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