Modeling Synergy and Learning under Multiple Advanced Manufacturing Technologies
针对企业面临多种先进制造技术选择时的协同与学习效应，提出一个模型来捕捉技术间的交互影响，并说明数据要求，通过多技术案例展示忽略这些效应的风险。
ABSTRACT The advent of the wide variety of new, highly integrated, advanced manufacturing technologies available for acquisition by a firm's managers has brought to light an accompanying set of unexpected issues. These issues include expectations for the benefits and costs of these technologies, determining the appropriate order of implementation and finding a way to justify acquisition when many of the benefits are a function of the technology's learning and synergistic effects on other operations and technologies. We present here a model that captures the interaction effects of these highly integrated technologies and discuss the data requirements for application of the construct. We then illustrate the model's workings with a number of multitechnology examples and show the danger of ignoring the synergistic and learning effects of these technologies when considering their acquisition.