The Dynamics and Spillovers of Management Interventions: Evidence from the Training within Industry Program
中文摘要
本文考察管理干预对企业绩效的长期效应与溢出效应。在产业内培训（Training Within Industry，TWI）项目下，美国政府于1940年至1945年间向从事为战争服务的生产活动的企业提供了管理培训。利用新收集的、涵盖全部11,575家申请该项目的美国企业的面板数据集，我们发现，TWI培训对企业绩效和有益管理实践的采纳具有正向且持久的效应。此外，该培训在不同类型的培训之间产生了互补性，并对受训企业的供应链产生了正向溢出效应。
Abstract
This paper examines the long-term and spillover effects of management interventions on firm performance. Under the Training Within Industry (TWI) program, the U.S. government provided management training to firms involved in war production between 1940 and 1945. Using a newly collected panel dataset on all 11,575 U.S. 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.