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This exploratory paper sketches some of the behavioral processes that give rise to the learning curve. Using data from … function of cumulative output and two managerial variables---engineering changes and workforce training. Exploration of this … model highlights the complex relationship between first-order and second-order learning. …
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propositions about the interrelationship among task, opportunities for review, training, and cost and their relative impact on … complex and depends on the level of time pressure, training, and the task environment. Within the context of the computational …
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Personal experience matters. In a field setting with longitudinal data, we disentangle the effects of learning new … learning new information, significantly boosts future compliance. We also show that experience with a large fine boosts …
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the prior distribution, and the learning model involves Bayesian updating of these Lagrange multipliers/prior. This …. These results show that regret is a natural means by which robust decision making and learning can be combined. <i …
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A common justification for organizational change is that the circumstances in which the organization finds itself have changed, thereby eroding the value of utilizing existing knowledge. On the surface, the claim that organizations should adapt by generating new knowledge seems obvious and...
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Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: <i>specialization</i> to capture the benefits of repetition and <i>variety</i> (i.e., working...
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(continuous-time) model of gradual learning, in which consumers incur search costs to learn further product information, and … of the product, heterogeneous importance of attributes, endogenous intensity of search, and social learning. <i …
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Some environments constrain the information that managers and decision makers can observe. We examine judgment in <i>censored environments</i> where a constraint, the <i>censorship point</i>, systematically distorts the observed sample. Random instances beyond the censorship point are observed at the...
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Backward induction is a widely accepted principle for predicting behavior in sequential games. In the classic example of the "centipede game," however, players frequently violate this principle. An alternative is a "dynamic level-k" model, where players choose a rule from a rule hierarchy. The...
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We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have over a series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return...
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