Learning by Doing Something Else: Variation, Relatedness, and the Learning Curve

By Melissa A. Schilling, Patricia Vidal, Robert E. Ployhart, A. Marangoni. Management Sciences, 2003

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Subfields: Communication, Management Science and Operations Research, Strategy and Management

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How Career Variety Promotes the Adaptability of Managers: A Theoretical Model. (2006, background): “In psychology, this process is called “distributive practice”, which may give the learner time to do the deep and elaborate processing that is necessary to draw on the general principles underlying the task (Mumford, Costanza, Baughman, Threlfall, & Fleishman, 1994; Schilling et al., 2003).”
Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, unknown): “The positive benefits associated with industry experience become even more evident at a high range of experience because of the ease with which entrepreneurs can accurately generalize from past venturing experiences in similar industries (Haunschild and Sullivan, 2002; Schilling et al., 2003).”
Unlocking Founding Team Prior Shared Experience: A Transactive Memory System Perspective (2012, background): “Similarly, Schilling et al. (2003) found that related task variation enhances learning rates more than unrelated task variation partly because mental representations are similar in related tasks.”
How do organizations remember? The influence of organizational structure on organizational memory (2010, background): “…on the individual, transformation, and organizational memory, since specialization should help the individual to develop a deeper understanding of the task (Argot et al. 2003; Postrel 2002; Schilling et al. 2003) and prevent an information overload (Adler and Borys 1996; Käkölä and Koota 1999).”
Unpacking Prior Experience: How Career History Affects Job Performance (2009, background): “Consistent with prior learning studies, all of these variables were logged to better fit the diminishing marginal value of experience (Argote 1999, Schilling et al. 2003).”
The hidden costs of outsourcing: evidence from patent data (2010, background): “So far, scholars have assumed the mechanism underlying vertical knowledge complementarities to be a ‘learning mechanism’ in the spirit of Cohen and Levinthal’s (1990) seminal paper.”
Learning from Experience in Software Development: A Multilevel Analysis (2007, background): “Research in psychology has found that learning across tasks can contain two aspects: the knowledge content transfer (e.g., knowledge about the code and architecture of a system) and the learning process transfer (“learning to learn”) (Schilling et al. 2003, p. 42).”
Knee Deep in the Big Muddy: The Survival of Emerging Market Firms in Developed Markets (2008, background): “These conclusions about group members’ perceptions of each other can be extended from the individual level to the organizational level, supporting Tsai’s (2002) views on coopetition and Schilling et al.’s (2003) research on the relationship between individual and organizational learning.”
Lighting the way or stealing the shine? An examination of the duality in star scientists' effects on firm innovative performance (2015, result): “Empirical evidence lends support to this argument as well, with previous research demonstrating that information overload reduces employees’ motivation to share information (Kirsh, 2001) and, in turn, decreases learning rates (Schilling et al., 2003).”