How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Forget?

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, a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Management Science. - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences, 1954. - 53(2007), 6, Seite 908-918
1. Verfasser: Thompson, Peter (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2007
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Management Science
Schlagworte:learning by doing organizational forgetting Liberty ships industries transportation equipment organizational studies productivity effectiveness-performance Business Behavioral sciences mehr... Economics Applied sciences Mathematics