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This paper examines the portability of star security analysts' performance. Star analysts who switched employers experienced an immediate decline in performance that persisted for at least five years. This decline was most pronounced among star analysts who moved to firms with lesser...
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Every organization is confronted by employee errors. Situational learning orientation may mitigate an employee …'s tendency to err. A situational learning orientation refers to the extent to which employees share the perception that there is … present study suggests that situational learning orientation interacts with two other organizational factors--autonomy and …
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We examine data from rural Arusha region in Tanzania in which households are asked to recall the illness episodes of randomly chosen other households in their village. We analyze the probability that a household would be able to recall another illness episode as a function of the characteristics...
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Laboratories have historically been under supported in developing country health systems resulting in poor quality diagnosis and inadequate disease surveillance. Laboratory professionals are predominantly male with relatively limited female labor participation, with potential gender based...
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Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success … them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity … related to improved worker productivity. However, when we examine workers' experience across a number of days, we find that …
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to learning that increases the farmers' productivity. However, labor sharing does not lead to learning as the … producing learning and associated productivity gains. …We study the effects of informal labor sharing arrangements and other social interactions on farmers' productivity in a …
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exporting and TFP growth, is mixed. We use a UK panel data set with firm-level information on exporting and productivity. Our … innovation is that we also have direct data on the sources of learning (in this case about new technologies). Controlling for … they learnt from buyers (relative to learning from other sources). Second, firms who had learned from buyers (more than …
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This paper addresses two research questions: How do learning mechanisms operate in different types of global value … chains? What is the supporting role of the innovation system in GVC-driven learning and innovation processes? Empirical …
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This exploratory paper sketches some of the behavioral processes that give rise to the learning curve. Using data from … two manufacturing departments in an electronic equipment company, we construct a model of productivity improvement as a … model highlights the complex relationship between first-order and second-order learning. …
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Total productivity learning curve results are reported for several departments of an electronic equipment manufacturer … investigation suggested that three forms of shared learning are critical to manufacturing productivity improvement: (1) sharing … behavioral and cognitive determinants of considerable diversity across departments in learning curve parameters. The field …
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