Learning by Doing Something Else: Variation, Relatedness, and the Learning Curve
@article{Schilling2003LearningBD, title={Learning by Doing Something Else: Variation, Relatedness, and the Learning Curve}, author={Melissa A. Schilling and Patricia Vidal and Robert E. Ployhart and Alexandre Marangoni}, journal={Manag. Sci.}, year={2003}, volume={49}, pages={39-56} }
Many organizational learning studies have an implicit assumption that the learning rate is maximized through specialization: the more an individual or organization focuses on a particular task, the faster it will improve. However, through contrasting the various learning process theories described in the research on organizational, group, and individual learning, we develop a set of competing hypotheses that suggest some degree of variation might improve the learning rate. Furthermore, such…
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