What's Experience Got to Do With It? Sources of Cost Reduction in a Large Specialty Chemicals Producer

By G. Sinclair, Steven Klepper, Wesley M. Cohen. 2000

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Subfields: Finance, Strategy and Management

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Swinging a Double-Edged Sword: The Effect of Slack on Entrepreneurial Management and Growth (2011, background): “Firmswith excess capacity have limited incentives to experiment (Sinclair et al., 2000).”
The satisficing principle in capability learning (2000, background): “See Sinclair, Klepper, and Cohen (1998); Argote (1999); Mishima (1999). vantage points on the scene.”
Drivers of cost reduction in solar photovoltaics (2015, background): “Sinclair et al. (2000) find that cost reductions in abig chemical companywhich appear tobe the result of learningwere in fact the result of R&D and related activities undertaken by the company. percentage reduction in cost that occurs when cumulated output doubles.6 Since cost data are usually…”
How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study (2001, background): “Most recently, Sinclair, Klepper, and Cohen (2000) find that variations in productivity growth rates across more than 1,000 products of the specialty chemicals division of a modern Fortune 500 company are largely attributable to variations in process research and development rather than to…”
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).”
On improvement rates for renewable energy technologies: Solar PV, wind turbines, capacitors, and batteries (2014, background): “reliable production data for batteries and capacitors but it does exist for solar and wind), partly because of fundamental difficulties with decoupling changes in demand (and thus production) from changes in performance [17] and partly because the connections in either case may well be through other”
A review of uncertainties in technology experience curves (2012, background): “, 2006), increased capital investments (Cohen, 1995; Klepper and Simons, 2000),economies-of-scale (Nemet, 2006; Sinclair et al., 2000; Yeh and Rubin, 2007) and exogenous technological change (Ferioli and van der Zwaan, 2009; Nordhaus, 2009).”
Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance: Evidence from Indian Software Services (2012, unknown): “Explanations for this phenomenon include variation in resources devoted to improvement (Sinclair et al. 2000), team structure e, team beliefs (Edmondson 1999), and task experience (Schilling et al.”
Resource constraints as triggers of radical innovation: Longitudinal evidence from the manufacturing sector (2013, background): “In such a setting, firms have only limited incentives to experiment since the need to take risks is significantly reduced (Levinthal and March, 1993; Miller and Leiblein, 1996; Sinclair et al., 2000), and consequently, they often lack entrepreneurial orientation (March 1994; Mishina et al.”
How predictable is technological progress (2015, unknown): “prediction intervals which are too tight (Makridakis & Winkler 1989). 6 Arrow (1962), Alchian (1963), Argote & Epple (1990), Dutton & Thomas (1984), Thompson (2012). 7 See Goddard (1982), Sinclair et al. (2000), Jamasb (2007), tested these alternatives using a data set that is very close”