Conditions That Shape the Learning Curve: Factors That Increase the Ability and Opportunity to Learn

References

• Adler P. S., Clark K. B. Behind the learning curve: A sketch of the learning process. Management Sci. (1991) 3:267–281Link, Google Scholar
• Anderson S. W. Measuring the impact of product mix heterogeneity on manufacturing overhead cost. Accounting Rev. (1995) 70:363–387Google Scholar
• Argote L., Beckman S. L., Epple D. The persistence and transfer of learning in industrial settings. Management Sci. (1990) 36:140–154Link, Google Scholar
• Argote L., McEvily B., Reagans R. Managing knowledge in organizations: An integrative framework and review of emerging themes. Management Sci. (2003) 49:571–582Link, Google Scholar
• Crossman E. R. F. W. A theory of the acquisition of speed skills. Ergonomics (1959) 2:153–166Crossref, Google Scholar
• Darr E. D., Argote L., Epple D. The acquisition, transfer, and depreciation of knowledge in service organizations: Productivity in franchises. Management Sci. (1995) 41:1750–1762Link, Google Scholar
• Dutton J. M., Thomas A. Treating progress functions as a managerial opportunity. Acad. Management Rev. (1984) 9:235–247Crossref, Google Scholar
• Ellis H.The Transfer of Learning (1965) (Macmillan Company, New York) Google Scholar
• Epple D., Argote L., Devadas R. Organizational learning curves: A method for investigating intra-plant transfer of knowledge acquired through learning by doing. Organ. Sci. (1991) 2:58–70Crossref, Google Scholar
• Fiol C. M., Lyles M. A. Organizational learning. Acad. Management Rev. (1985) 4:803–813Crossref, Google Scholar
• Fisher M. L., Ittner C. D. The impact of product variety on automobile assembly operations: Empirical evidence and simulation analysis. Management Sci. (1999) 45:771–786Link, Google Scholar
• Gollop F. M., Monohan J. L. A generalized index of diversification: Trends in U.S. Manufacturing. Rev. Econom. Statist. (1991) 73:318–331Crossref, Google Scholar
• Green W. H.Econometric Analysis (2000) (Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ) Google Scholar
• Hirsch W. Z. Firm progress ratios. Econometrica (1956) 24:136–143Crossref, Google Scholar
• Huber G. P. Organizational learning: The contributing processes and the literatures. Organ. Sci. (1991) 2:88–115Link, Google Scholar
• Ittner C. D., Nagar V., Rajan M. V. An empirical examination of dynamic quality-based learning models. Management Sci. (2001) 47:563–578Link, Google Scholar
• Levin D. Z. Organizational learning and the transfer of knowledge: An investigation of quality improvement. Organ. Sci. (2000) 11:630–647Link, Google Scholar
• March J. Footnotes to organizational change. Admin. Sci. Quart. (1981) 26:563–577Crossref, Google Scholar
• March J. Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning. Organ. Sci. (1991) 2:71–87Link, Google Scholar
• March J., Simon H.Organizations (1958) (John Wiley and Sons, New York) Google Scholar
• Matusik S. F., Hill C. W. L. The utilization of contingent work, knowledge creation, and competitive advantages. Acad. Management Rev. (1998) 24:680–697Crossref, Google Scholar
• Montgomery D. B., Day G. S., Thomas H., Gardner D. Experience curves: Evidence, empirical issues, and applications. Strategic Marketing and Management (1985) (John Wiley and Sons, New York) 213–238Chapter 3.6Google Scholar
• Muth J. F. Search theory and the manufacturing progress function. Management Sci. (1986) 32:948–962Link, Google Scholar
• Pisano G. P., Bohmer R. M. J., Edmondson A. C. Organizational differences in rates of learning: Evidence from the adoption of minimal invasive cardiac surgery. Management Sci. (2001) 47:752–768Link, Google Scholar
• Reagans R., Argote L., Brooks D. Individual experience and experience working together: Predicting learning rates from knowing who knows what and knowing how to work together. Management Sci. (2005) 51:869–881Link, Google Scholar
• Roberts P. C. A theory of the learning process. J. Oper. Res. (1983) 34:71–79Crossref, Google Scholar
• Schilling M. A., Vidal P., Ployhart R. E., Marangoni A. Learning by doing something else: Variation, relatedness, and the learning curve. Management Sci. (2003) 49:39–56Link, Google Scholar
• Shafer S. M., Nembhard D. A., Uzumeri M. V. The effects of worker learning, forgetting, and heterogeneity on assembly line productivity. Management Sci. (2001) 47:1639–1653Link, Google Scholar
• Sinclair G., Klepper S., Cohen W. What's experience got to do with it? Sources of cost reduction in a large specialty chemicals producer. Management Sci. (2000) 46:28–45Link, Google Scholar
• Smith A.The Wealth of Nations (1776) (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL) Google Scholar
• Sorenson O. Interdependence and adaptability: Organizational learning and the long-term effect of integration. Management Sci. (2003) 49:446–463Link, Google Scholar
• Wooldrigde J. M.Econometric Analysis of Cross-Section and Panel Data (2002) (MIT Press, Cambridge, MA) Google Scholar
• Wright T. P. Factors affecting the costs of airplanes. J. Aerospace Sci. (1936) 3:122–128Google Scholar