Organizational and Individual Learning and Forgetting
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3543430 |
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| Authors | Morris M Kleiner (0009-0004-4729-9377), Jerry Nickelsburg (0000-0002-2552-9889, University of California, Los Angeles), Adam M Pilarski (0000-0001-7292-8236) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 65 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 68-81 |
| Publication date | 2012-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979391206500104 |
| OpenAlex | W2133699988 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Researchers of industrial relations issues in manufacturing have long recognized that careful study of production has significant implications for labor productivity. Recent theory and analysis has shown the large influence of organizational forgetting. The authors of this study demonstrate that forgetting by workers in an establishment or line of production as a substantive characteristic of actual production processes is overstated and that alternative, simpler theoretical and empirical explanations have at least as good explanatory power. Using inside-the-firm analysis, they find that the omitted-variable bias in other studies due to data limitations has the potential for spurious estimates of large forgetting rates by lines of work. Further, they find that forgetting, although important and interesting, is not as influential as previous work for labor productivity has suggested. Further analysis of the production function and the role of organizational forgetting needs to be fully specified in a model to include internal production and labor relations characteristics, like those in this study, to be a plausible model of the production process within manufacturing establishments
Cognitive psychology · Econometrics · Economic growth · Economics · Epistemology · Explanatory power · Forgetting · Function (biology) · Microeconomics · Process (computing) · Production (economics) · Production function · Productivity · Spurious relationship · Variable (mathematics) · Work (physics) · Computer Science · Engineering · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Labor Movements and Unions · Management and Organizational Studies · Mathematics · Psychology
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| Highly cited | No |
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