In this work, we adopt simulation in order to explore organization learning in assembling operations as an emergent phenomenon. We focus on the emergence of organizational learning curves which is supposed to be the signal that leads to the spontaneous arise of routines or patterns of...

This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them...