Economics · Operations Research · Peer-reviewed study
Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
Bloom, Eifert, Mahajan, McKenzie & Roberts · 2013
A field experiment in Indian textile plants examined how changes in management practices affected productivity, quality and inventory.
The principle
What the source contributes.
Operational changes can be evaluated against a comparison group and defined performance measures.
Our interpretation
How it informs our approach.
Informs how we frame operational investigations, establish baselines and distinguish a measured change from a plausible improvement idea.
This connection is MereSimplicity’s editorial interpretation. It is not a statement of endorsement by the authors or evidence of our product’s performance.
Assumptions & limits
Where the claim stops.
Results concern a specific intervention and industrial setting. They do not establish an expected improvement for every business or for MereSimplicity’s products.
Original source
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- Title
- Does Management Matter? Evidence from India
- Authors / institution
- Nicholas Bloom, Benn Eifert, Aprajit Mahajan, David McKenzie, John Roberts
- Year
- 2013
- Publication type
- Peer-reviewed study
- Journal / resource
- The Quarterly Journal of Economics · 128(1), 1–51
- Publisher / issuer
- Oxford University Press
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