How much did the liberty shipbuilders forget?

被引：73

作者：

Thompson, Peter ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Florida Int Univ, Dept Econ, Miami, FL 33199 USA

来源：

MANAGEMENT SCIENCE | 2007年 / 53卷 / 06期

关键词：

learning by doing; organizational forgetting; Liberty ships; industries; transportation equipment; organizational studies; productivity; effectiveness-performance; ORGANIZATIONAL MEMORY; IMPROVING PERFORMANCE; LEARNING-CURVES; ACQUISITION; SPILLOVERS;

D O I：

10.1287/mnsc.1060.0678

中图分类号：

C93 [管理学];

学科分类号：

12 ; 1201 ; 1202 ; 120202 ;

摘要：

This paper produces new estimates of the rate of organizational forgetting in the well-known case study of U.S. wartime ship production. Estimates obtained using data constructed from primary sources at the National Archives yield rates of forgetting that are much smaller than previously reported, and may well be zero. The richness of the data makes it possible to control for variations in the product mix, to explore alternative formulations for the learning curve, and to investigate the relationship between organizational forgetting and labor turnover.

引用

页码：908 / 918

页数：11

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