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software services firm to examine how such changes may affect the accumulation of experience within, and the performance of … experience of individual team members (e.g., years at the firm) are not consistently related to performance. We do find, however … team performance. Our results offer an approach for capturing the experience held by fluid teams and highlight the need to …
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This paper examines learning curves in the health care setting to determine whether organizations achieve performance … improvements from cumulative experience at different rates. Although extensive research has shown that cumulative experience leads … to performance improvement across numerous contexts, the question of how much of this improvement is due to mere …
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We study oligopoly price competition between multiproduct firms---firms whose products interact in the profit function. Specifically, we focus on the impact of intrafirm product interactions on the level of equilibrium profits. This impact may be decomposed in two different ways: (a) a direct...
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franchisees. We find evidence of learning in these service organizations: as the organizations gain experience in production, the …
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The persistence of learning within organizations and the transfer of learning across organizations are examined on data collected from multiple organizations. Results indicate that knowledge acquired through production depreciates rapidly. The conventional measure of learning, cumulative output,...
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A model is introduced to examine the long-term planning associated with the purchase and implementation of information technologies (IT) that indirectly contribute to output through enhancement of an organization's knowledge workers. For example, architectural firms in the service industry and...
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between development and manufacturing facilities are all significant in improving performance in introducing new technologies …
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This paper shows the difficulties associated with discerning the impact of learning and pressures of competitive entry on the price and cost of production in commodity markets. It shows that the patterns of price and cost movements over time will be dramatically affected by the entry of new...
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Conventional learning curves relating unit cost to measures of production experience are estimated for 221 specialty … relationship between unit cost and measures of production experience were subject to specific initiatives, particularly process R …...D. The R...D was not, however, generally motivated or informed, by production experience. However, cumulative past output …
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literature does not measure how brand value affects product similarity and consumer choice. This paper examines demand response …
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