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Prior to intervention, uncommon management practices had a 98.5% non-adoption rate, driven by lack of awareness (64.0%) and incorrect profitability beliefs (30.9%). Providing management information decreased uncommon practice non-adoption by 35.3 percentage points after 9 months.
Informational constraints were identified as the primary barrier to adoption, while receiving consulting increased plant productivity by 16.6% within one year and raised annual profits by an estimated US$325,000 per plant.
Baseline BVR management practice scores correlated at 0.404 (p = 0.077) with the paper's 38 binary practice index across experimental firms, successfully capturing systematic productivity differences across countries and firms.
Adopting basic quality measurement and data tracking enabled treatment plants to correct defect root causes quickly, reducing average defects by over 50 percent in the first three months alone [4].
Record-keeping adoption among consulting recipients surged by 45 percentage points at 6 months (Round 3, p < 0.01) and remained 26 percentage points higher at 12 months (Round 7, p < 0.05), but declined to a statistically insignificant 12 percentage point difference (with only 28% maintaining records) by 24 months (Round 8), 11 months after consulting ceased.