| 来源类型 | Working Paper |
| 规范类型 | 报告 |
| DOI | 10.3386/w16658 |
| 来源ID | Working Paper 16658 |
| Does Management Matter? Evidence from India | |
| Nicholas Bloom; Benn Eifert; Aprajit Mahajan; David McKenzie; John Roberts | |
| 发表日期 | 2011-01-06 |
| 出版年 | 2011 |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 摘要 | 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 plants. We find that adopting these management practices had three main effects. First, it raised average productivity by 11% through improved quality and efficiency and reduced inventory. Second, it increased decentralization of decision making, as better information flow enabled owners to delegate more decisions to middle managers. Third, it increased the use of computers, necessitated by the data collection and analysis involved in modern management. Since these practices were profitable this raises the question of why firms had not adopted these before. Our results suggest that informational barriers were a primary factor in explaining this lack of adoption. Modern management is a technology that diffuses slowly between firms, with many Indian firms initially unaware of its existence or impact. Since competition was limited by constraints on firm entry and growth, badly managed firms were not rapidly driven from the market. |
| 主题 | Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Other ; Accounting, Marketing, and Personnel ; Development and Growth ; Development ; Innovation and R& ; D |
| URL | https://www.nber.org/papers/w16658 |
| 来源智库 | National Bureau of Economic Research (United States) |
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/574333 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Nicholas Bloom,Benn Eifert,Aprajit Mahajan,et al. Does Management Matter? Evidence from India. 2011. |
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