How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study

By Peter Thompson. Journal of Political Economy, 2001

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Learning-By-Doing, Organizational Forgetting, and Industry Dynamics (2007, background): “…Hirsch 1952, DeJong 1957, Alchian 1963, Levy 1965, Kilbridge 1962, Hirschmann 1964, Preston & Keachie 1964, Baloff 1971, Dudley 1972, Zimmerman 1982, Lieberman 1984, Gruber 1992, Irwin & Klenow 1994, Jarmin 1994, Pisano 1994, Bohn 1995, Hatch & Mowery 1998, Thompson 2001, Thornton & Thompson 2001).”
Beyond the learning curve: factors influencing cost reductions in photovoltaics (2006, background): “Finally, experience curves ignore changes in quality beyond the single dimension being analyzed (Thompson, 2001).4 The dependent variable is limited to cost normalized by a single measure of performance— for example, hours of labor/aircraft, $/W, or b/megabyte.”
Drivers of cost reduction in solar photovoltaics (2015, background): “(2011), Tidball et al. (2010) and Prior (2011)).”
Learning curves for environmental technology and their importance for climate policy analysis (2004, background): “Such curves have been discussed extensively in the literature for a wide range of technologies, including energy technologies [3–7].”
The dynamic resource-based view: capability lifecycles (2003, background): “…worker–management relations and individual worker experience (Lazonick and Brush, 1985), improvements in operations management and task coordination (Mishina, 1999), capital investment (Thompson, 2001), and research and development on manufacturing processes (Sinclair, Klepper, and Cohen, 2000).”