Creating and transferring knowledge for productivity improvement in factories

Management Science

Volumn 47, Issue 10, 2001, Pages 1311-1325

  Lapré, Michael A ^a,b   Van Wassenhove, Luk N ^a,b  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSEAD   (France)

Author keywords

Formal Learning; Knowledge Transfer; Learning by Doing; Learning Curve; Replication; Technological Knowledge; Total Factor Productivity

Indexed keywords

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; PRODUCTIVITY; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

PRODUCTIVITY IMPROVEMENT;

PRODUCTION ENGINEERING;

EID: 0035494016     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.47.10.1311.10264     Document Type: Article

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