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activities within an overall innovation process. Data analyses on 50 supplier-manufacturer relationships drawn from three new …-term learning-enhancing outcomes. …
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Whereas a number of studies have considered the implications of employee mobility, comparatively little research has considered institutional factors governing the ability of employees to move from one firm to another. This paper explores a legal constraint on mobility--employee non-compete...
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Firms use samples to increase the sales of almost all consumable goods, including food, health, and cleaning products. Despite its importance, sampling remains one of the most under-researched areas. There are no theoretical quantitative models of sampling behavior other than the pioneering work...
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there is more prior uncertainty about employees and activities. I argue that this firm learning theory fits the existing … evidence on rotation better than alternative explanations based on employee motivation and employee learning. …
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learning curve (LC) provides1988 Department of Industrial Engineering and a means to observe and track that improvement. At … a theory. Our approach is based on learning cycles, that is, in each period management takes an action to improve the … differential equation that not only characterizes continuous improvement but also reveals how learning might occur in the learning …
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Managing highly skilled employees is extremely complex because of the need to balance the costs and time lags associated with their training against the need to meet demand as quickly as possible. Unlike previous approaches to this problem in the staffing literature, this paper develops an...
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Our review of the learning and training literature revealed four common methods for training people to be more … effective negotiators: didactic learning, learning via information revelation, analogical learning, and observational learning …. We tested each of these methods experimentally in an experiential context and found that observational learning and …
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The authors investigate through several simulations how patterns of learning and forgetting affect the operating … performance of an assembly line. A unique aspect of this study is that a distribution of learning/forgetting behavior based on an … empirical population of workers is used rather than assuming the same learning pattern for all employees. The paper demonstrates …
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advantage of the potential for learning between tests, thus resulting in a larger number of tests. We model this trade-off in …
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