How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Forget?
利用美国国家档案馆一手数据重新估计战时造船业的组织遗忘率,发现遗忘率远低于此前报告,甚至可能为零,并控制了产品组合变化、探索了学习曲线的替代形式。
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.