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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

SMEs, Training, Viet Nam, Kaizen

Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

We conducted randomised experiments to provide management training for 312 small Vietnamese manufacturers in 2010 and repeatedly collected follow-up data in the span of a decade. Analysing panel data constructed from our original surveys with an attrition rate of 4%, we find that our training significantly improved the management quality of the treated entrepreneurs, and such improvement was sustained for at least 5 years. The control entrepreneurs, however, caught up in the longer run.

Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from Vietnamese SMEs

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Yuki Higuchi, Vu Hoang Nam, Tetsushi Sonobe

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