Please use this form to submit your study for inclusion into our database. It will be checked by a member of the Innovation Growth Lab team, who may be in contact to ask for more information. Your email address * Your name * Title * The name of the study Short summary This paper investigates the impact of management training programs on garment clusters in Vietnam and Tanzania. A brief description of the project's goals and its current state Abstract <p>This paper investigates the impact of management training programs on garment clusters in Vietnam and Tanzania. The study found that in the medium run firms showed improvement once they had identified useful practices and adapted them to their operations. Although it takes a few years to experience a significant impact on incomes, management training can increase not just management scores but also incomes or value added.</p> The full abstract of the study, if available Links http://hdl.handle.net/10986/36150 Links to any published papers and related discussions Authors * Affiliations Academic and other institutes that the authors of the study are members of Delivery partner Organisations involved in delivering the trial, if appropriate Year Year Year199419951996199719981999200020012002200320042005200620072008200920102011201220132014201520162017201820192020202120222023202420252026 Month MonthJanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec Day Day12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031 Journal Journal publishing the study, if available Publication stage * Working Paper Published Ongoing Research Forthcoming Discussion Paper Research theme * Entrepreneurship Innovation Business Growth Country Country or countries where this study took place. Topics What sort of topics does the study cover? Sample attributes Hypotheses / research question When does improvement in management increase income and value added? Sample Trial population and sample selection The garment cluster in Tanzania is located in Dar es Salaam, the country’s largest city and has more than 700 garment producers, including the self-employed. The study randomly selected 113 firms out of the 250 members of three major associations of garment firms. In Vietnam, the study site is located on the outskirts of Hanoi, the capital city. The sample covers all the 161 final-product producers in the cluster. A major advantage of considering an industrial cluster is that sample firms face the same prices of product, factors, and intermediate inputs, and have the same access to infrastructure because they produce the same products in the geographical proximity. This reduces heterogeneity among sample firms, thereby facilitating statistical inference. However, knowledge spillovers would make estimation of the impact of the treatment difficult. Number of treatment groups Size of treatment groups Size of control group Unit of analysis Clustered? Yes No Cluster details Trial attributes Treatment description The experimental training programs covered not only basic accounting, marketing, and business strategy, as often adopted in the existing studies, but also elementary training in Kaizen management. In both sites, the training programs consisted of two components: one offered classroom lectures for about 45 hours, and the other sent trainers to participants several times to provide coaching tailored to respective firms.In each site, the sample was randomly divided in half, and one-half was invited to participate in the classroom training component. Then, independently of this, the sample was randomly divided in half again, and one-half was invited to the on-site training component. Rounds of data collection Baseline data collection and method Information regarding the number of workers, management score, value added and willingness to pay were collected. Data collection method and data collected Evaluation Outcome variables <p>Management score, or the number of good practices adopted by a firm. The score was constructed based on enumerators’ visual inspection and personal interviews with the owners of the sample firms.</p> Results <p>In both sites, the treatment and control groups share about the same scores in the baseline, but their scores diverged from the first follow-up survey onwards. The control group’s average score increased from the baseline through the second follow-up survey, suggesting that there were knowledge spillovers from the treatment group to the control group. In Tanzania, the management scoresat the third follow-up survey were lower than at the second, indicating that the firms stopped using some practices that they had adopted earlier. </p> Intervention costs Cost benefit ratio Reference Higuchi, Y., Mhede, E. P., Nam, V. H., & Sonobe, T., 2020. Medium-run impacts of management training in garment clusters. The World Bank Economic Review, 34(Supplement_1), S68-S71. Citation for use in academic references
