Vanessa Schreiber is a PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford. She holds an MPhil in Economics from the University of Oxford and a BA in Business Administration from Universität St. Gallen.
In this project, Schreiber sets up suggestion boxes for 1,600 workers in a Bangladeshi garment factory and tests the efficacy of two cross-randomized voice-enhancing managerial interventions through an RCT.
Informational constraints are often a crucial barrier to adoption of innovations in firms. How can firms overcome this barrier and increase upward flows of ideas?