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The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program

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  • Nicola Bianchi
  • Michela Giorcelli

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This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the US government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel data set on all 11,575 US firms that applied to the program, we find that the TWI training had positive and long-lasting effects on firm performance and the adoption of beneficial managerial practices. Moreover, it generated complementarities among different types of training and had positive spillover effects on the supply chain of trained firms.

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  • Nicola Bianchi & Michela Giorcelli, 2022. "The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 130(6), pages 1630-1675.
    • Handle: RePEc:ucp:jpolec:doi:10.1086/719277
    DOI: 10.1086/719277
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    1. Manaresi, Francesco & Palma, Alessandro & Salvatici, Luca & Scrutinio, Vincenzo, 2022. "Managerial input and firm performance. Evidence from a policy experiment," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics 117989, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library.
    2. Louise Guillouet & Amit Khandelwal & Rocco Macchiavello & Madhav Malhotra & Matthieu Teachout, 2021. "Language Barriers in Multinationals and Knowledge Transfers," NBER Working Papers 28807, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    3. Ethan Ilzetzki, 2024. "Learning by Necessity: Government Demand, Capacity Constraints, and Productivity Growth," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 114(8), pages 2436-2471, August.
    4. Lima, Gonçalo & Moeller, Jakob & Schmandt, Marco & Westheide, Christian, 2023. "The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: A Comment on Bianchi and Giorcelli (2022)," I4R Discussion Paper Series 66, The Institute for Replication (I4R).
    5. González, Felipe & Prem, Mounu & von Dessauer, Cristine, 2024. "Empowerment or Indoctrination? Female Training Programs under Dictatorship," IZA Discussion Papers 17163, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    6. Agnes Norris Keiller & John Van Reenen, 2024. "Disaster management," CEP Discussion Papers dp2007, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
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    8. Bruhn,Miriam & Piza,Caio, 2022. "Missing Information : Why Don’t More Firms Seek Out Business Advice ?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 10183, The World Bank.
    9. Kieron Meagher & Andrew Wait, 2023. "Trust in management in organizations," IZA World of Labor, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), pages 507-507, April.

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    • J24 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity
    • L2 - Industrial Organization - - Firm Objectives, Organization, and Behavior
    • M2 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Business Economics
    • M5 - Business Administration and Business Economics; Marketing; Accounting; Personnel Economics - - Personnel Economics
    • N34 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Europe: 1913-
    • N64 - Economic History - - Manufacturing and Construction - - - Europe: 1913-
    • O15 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Development - - - Economic Development: Human Resources; Human Development; Income Distribution; Migration
    • O32 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Management of Technological Innovation and R&D
    • O33 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Innovation; Research and Development; Technological Change; Intellectual Property Rights - - - Technological Change: Choices and Consequences; Diffusion Processes

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