Learning and Forgetting: the Dynamics of Aircraft Production

By C. Lanier Benkard, H. Asher, A. Alchian, T. Gulledge, N. K. Womer. 2000

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Practice Makes Perfect: Entrepreneurial-Experience Curves and Venture Performance (2014, background): “…of experience from the prior venture is most valuable when the knowledge soon translates into a new effort because experiential knowledge depreciates over time unless that knowledge is put into action (Argote et al., 1990; Baum and Ingram, 1998; Benkard, 2000; Darr and Argote, 1995; Parker, 2012).”
Organizational learning research: Past, present and future (2011, background): “In the area of knowledge retention, researchers have examined whether organizational knowledge is cumulative and persists through time or whether organizational knowledge decays or depreciates (Argote et al., 1990; Benkard, 2000; Darr et al., 1995).”
The Role of Trading Frictions in Real Asset Markets (2011, background): “(55)The conditions are obtained by combining equations (12), (14) and (9), and equations (13), (15) and (10), respectively.”
Individual Experience and Experience Working Together: Predicting Learning Rates from Knowing Who Knows What and Knowing How to Work Together (2005, background): “For example, the unit costs of producing aircraft (Alchain 1963, Benkard 2000, Wright 1936), ships (Rapping 1965), trucks (Argote and Epple 1990), and semiconductors (Hatch and Mowery 1998) have been shown to follow a learning curve: The cost of producing a unit of each product decreased at a…”
Learning and the sources of corporate growth (2002, background): “Perhaps this is because the persistent advantages that a firm builds up by travelling down a learning curve may not be persistent if it forgets things quickly (Benkard, 2000).”
DEATH HURTS, BUT IT ISN'T FATAL: THE POSTEXIT DIFFUSION OF KNOWLEDGE CREATED BY INNOVATIVE COMPANIES. (2005, background): “Similarly, Benkard (2000) found evidence of organizational “forgetting” in the presence of highly tacit and human-capital-embodied knowledge.”
Firm-Specific Human Capital, Organizational Incentives, and Agency Costs: Evidence from Retail Banking (2014, methodology): “21 Relevant recent studies include Milgrom and Roberts (1995), Ichniowski et al.”
Search engine competition with network externalities (2012, neutral): “14 See Wright (1936) or, more recently, Benkard (2000).”
RECONCEPTUALIZING THE EFFECTS OF LEAN ON PRODUCTION COSTS WITH EVIDENCE FROM THE F-22 PROGRAM (2009, background): “Organizational theory contends that group effectiveness and improved performance do not come from radical or breakthrough change (Greenwood and Hinings 1996) but from consistent development and continuous improvement of the routines over time (Bessant and Caffyn 1996), and that volatility and instab”