Learning curves: Literature review and further research;Curvas de aprendizado: Estado da arte e perspectivas de pesquisa

Gestao e Producao

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 109-123

  Anzanello, Michel José ^a   Fogliatto, Flávio Sanson ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Learning curves; Production planning; Workers performance

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547344324     PISSN: 0104530X     EISSN: 18069649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s0104-530x2007000100010     Document Type: Article

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