Keyword: learning

Found 506 papers in total
David vs. Goliath: An analysis of asymmetric mixed-strategy games and experimental evidence
2002,
Mixed strategies are widely used to model strategic situations in diverse fields such...
Consumer awareness, understanding and usage of unit pricing
2003,
The debate continues over whether prescribed quantities or unit pricing offers the...
Creating tools for farmers' learning: An application of developmental work research
2002,
This paper describes how the methodology of developmental work research, originating...
Knowledge seeking and location choice of foreign direct investment in the United States
2002,
To what extent do firms go abroad to access technology available in other locations?...
Job rotation as a learning mechanism
2001,
This article analyzes the costs and benefits of job rotation as a mechanism with which...
Cutting corners and working overtime: Quality erosion in the service industry
2001,
The erosion of service quality throughout the economy is a frequent concern in the...
The transfer of experience in groups of organizations: Implications for performance and competition
2002,
Groups of organizations are pervasive, although there is little systematic knowledge...
The trade-off between efficiency and learning in interorganizational relationships for product development
2001,
This paper analyzes the performance implications of interorganizational relationships...
The nonstationary staff-planning problem with business cycle and learning effects
2001,
Managing highly skilled employees is extremely complex because of the need to balance...
Bayesian interpretation of continuous-time universal portfolios
2002,
Under the continuous-time framework with incomplete information on asset price...
Organizational differences in rates of learning: Evidence from the adoption of minimally invasive cardiac surgery
2001,
This paper examines learning curves in the health care setting to determine whether...
The dual-phase learning–forgetting model
2002,
In this paper we develop the dual-phase learning–forgetting model (DPLFM) to...
Allocation of quality improvement targets based on investments in learning
2001,
Purchased materials often account for more than 50% of a manufacturer's product...
Stimulating awareness of actual learning processes
2002,
What do we know about how our students actually learn? This paper explores this simple...
Retention and reacquisition of military skills
2001,
The Army trains thousands of tasks, often months before they are needed. But a century...
Actor-critic-type learning algorithms for Markov decision processes
1999,
Algorithms for learning the optimal policy of a Markov decision process (MDP) based on...
A virtual environment for training overhead crane operators: Real-time implementation
1998,
In a manufacturing enterprise, virtual environments can improve productivity by...
Effect of learning on line-of-balance scheduling
2001,
An approach to formulate learning rates and include them in line-of-balance (LOB)...
Organizational learning and the transfer of knowledge: An investigation of quality improvement
2000,
Whereas most prior research on the learning curve has focused on improvements in...
On the dynamics of word of mouth learning with and without anticipations
1999,
We analyze the learning behavior of two populations engaged in playing a ‘battle...
Training and turnover in the evolution of organizations
1997,
An organization's decision whether or not to train its workers affects the overall...
Economic lot sizing with learning and continuous time discounting: Is it significant?
2001,
Learning curves are a means of representing continuous improvement in firms. Such...
A new stochastic learning algorithm for neural networks
2000,
A new stochastic learning algorithm using Gaussian white noise sequence, referred to...
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