What's experience got to do with it? Sources of cost reduction in a large specialty chemicals producer

Management Science

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 28-45

  Sinclair, Gavin ^a   Klepper, Steven ^a   Cohen, Wesley ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL PLANTS; INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS; INVENTORY CONTROL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PERSONNEL; PRODUCTION CONTROL; RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT MANAGEMENT; SCHEDULING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COST REDUCTION; LEARNING CURVES; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; PROCESS INNOVATION; PRODUCTION EXPERIENCE; UNIT COST;

COST EFFECTIVENESS;

EID: 0033890016     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.46.1.28.15133     Document Type: Article

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