Organizational Learning as Credit Assignment: A Model and Two Experiments
提出了一个组织学习曲线的理论模型，认为学习机制是逐步识别实现目标的关键步骤，并通过仿真和人类被试实验验证了该模型能解释学习曲线、学习率变化和组织适应新环境的经验规律。
We outline a theoretical model of organizational learning curves to account for the empirical regularities observed in the literature. The learning mechanism in our model is the gradual recognition of important stepping stones to achieving the goal. As organizations gain experience, they discover the appropriate actions to take at each stage and reduce the number of the steps it takes to reach the final outcome. Using both simulation and human subject experiments, we show that this model accounts for existing empirical regularities related to the learning curves, variations in learning rates, and organizational adaptation to new environments.