Individual experience and experience working together: Predicting learning rates from knowing who knows what and knowing how to work together

Management Science

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 869-881

  Reagans, Ray ^a   Argote, Linda ^b   Brooks, Daria ^c  

^a Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Experience based learning; Learning by doing; Organizational learning; Social networks; Transactive memory systems

Indexed keywords

EXPERIENCE-BASED LEARNING; ORGANIZATIONAL LEARNING; SOCIAL NETWORKS; TRANSACTIVE MEMORY SYSTEMS;

CARDIOLOGY; HOSPITALS; PERFORMANCE; PRODUCTION; SOCIAL ASPECTS; TEACHING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 22544488116     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.1050.0366     Document Type: Review

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