全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations

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来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w19674
来源ID	Working Paper 19674
	Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations
	Carolyn D. Egelman; Dennis Epple; Linda Argote; Erica R.H. Fuchs
发表日期	2013-11-21
出版年	2013
语种	英语
摘要	Extending research on organizational learning to multi-product environments is of particular importance given that the vast majority of products are manufactured in such environments. We investigate learning in a multi-product facility drawing on exceptionally rich data for a manufacturing firm that is a leading producer of high technology components. Weekly data for 10 years from the firm's production and human resource tracking systems are augmented by surveys of managers and engineers and by extensive first-hand observation. We find that productivity improves when multiple generations of the firm's primary product family are produced concurrently, reflecting the firm's ability to augment and transfer knowledge from older to newer product generations. No significant transfer of knowledge is evident between the primary product family and other products. Productivity is, however, decreased when the production facility is faced with extensive within-product buyer-specific customizations.We develop the implications of these findings for theory and practice.
主题	Microeconomics ; Households and Firms ; Industrial Organization ; Firm Behavior ; Industry Studies ; Development and Growth ; Innovation and R& ; D
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w19674
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/577349
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Carolyn D. Egelman,Dennis Epple,Linda Argote,et al. Learning by Doing in a Multi-Product Manufacturing Environment: Product Variety, Customizations, and Overlapping Product Generations. 2013.