An empirical investigation of the microstructure of knowledge acquisition and transfer through learning by doing

Operations Research

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 77-86

  Epple, Dennis ^a   Argote, Linda ^a   Murphy, Kenneth ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 17144429721     PISSN: 0030364X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/opre.44.1.77     Document Type: Article

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