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Knowledge transfer among projects using a learn‐forget model

Tukel, Oya I.; Rom, Walter O.; Kremic, Tibor - In: The Learning Organization 15 (2008) 2, pp. 179-194

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of learning in a project‐driven organization and demonstrate analytically how the learning, which takes place during the execution of successive projects, and the forgetting that takes place during the dormant time between the...

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Learning Curves For Energy Technology and Policy Analysis: A Critical Assessment

Jamasb, T.; Köhler, J. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2007

, Economics and Policy”†, Jamasb and Kohler revisit the literature on learning curves and their application to energy technology … embraced the learning curves and applied the concept to technology analysis and forecasting cost reductions. We argue that … learning curves have often been used or assumed uncritically in technology analysis and draw parallels between the use of …

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Developing the PAGE2002 Model with Endogenous Technical Change

Alberth, S.; Hope, C. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2006

Presented research demonstrates the inclusion of endogenous technical change into the PAGE2002 integrated assessment model of climate change. The ‘experience curve’ or learning-by-doing concept, made popular by the Boston Consulting Group during the 1960’s provides a mechanism with which...

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Technical Change Theory and Learning Curves: Patterns of Progress in Energy Technologies

Jamasb, T. - Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge - 2006

This paper presents a comparative analysis of energy technology learning and progress within the framework of Schumpeter’s invention-innovation-diffusion paradigm. We estimate learning by doing and research rates for a range of energy technologies in four stages of technical progress. Emerging...

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Bertrand Supertraps

Cabral, Luís M. B.; Villas-Boas, Miguel - In: Management Science 51 (2005) 4, pp. 599-613

then all firms receive lower profits. A variety of other applications is considered, including learning curves, core …

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Proposal of Indicators to Assess Urban Sustainability in Brazil

Fehr, M.; Sousa, K.A.; Pereira, A.F.N.; Pelizer, L.C. - In: Environment, Development and Sustainability 6 (2004) 3, pp. 355-366

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Organizational Differences in Rates of Learning: Evidence from the Adoption of Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Pisano, Gary P.; Bohmer, Richard M.J.; Edmondson, Amy C. - In: Management Science 47 (2001) 6, pp. 752-768

This paper examines learning curves in the health care setting to determine whether organizations achieve performance … propose that learning curves can vary across organizations engaged in the same "learning task," due to organizational learning …

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What's Experience Got to Do With It? Sources of Cost Reduction in a Large Specialty Chemicals Producer

Sinclair, Gavin; Klepper, Steven; Cohen, Wesley - In: Management Science 46 (2000) 1, pp. 28-45

Conventional learning curves relating unit cost to measures of production experience are estimated for 221 specialty …

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The Efficiency-Quality Trade-Off of Cross-Trained Workers

Pinker, Edieal J.; Shumsky, Robert A. - In: Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 2 (2000) 1, pp. 32-48

Does cross-training workers allow a firm to achieve economies of scale when there is variability in the content of work, or does it create a workforce that performs many tasks with consistent mediocrity? To address this question we integrate a model of a stochastic service system with models for...

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The Production Recipes Approach to Modeling Technological Innovation: An Application to Learning By Doing

Auerswald, Philip; Kauffman, Stuart; Lobo, Jose; Shell, Karl - Santa Fe Institute - 1998

We do two things in this paper. First, we put forward some elements of a microeconomic theory of technological evolution. This involves adding nascent (essentially undiscovered) technologies to the existing technologies of neoclassical production theory, and, more importantly, expanding the...

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