A variety of mathematical models have been proposed to characterize and quantify the
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This article surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on mechanisms that confer
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Creating a Learning Society: A New Approach to Growth, Development, and Social Progress,
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When the World Health Organization launched a worldwide campaign to eradicate
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The resource‐based approach is an emerging framework that has stimulated discussion
between scholars from three research perspectives. First, the resource‐based theory …

Why do some organizations learn at faster rates than others? Why do organizations" forget"?
Could productivity gains acquired in one part of an organization be transferred to another …

This paper seeks to identify the sources of wide and persistent variations in learning
performance in the semiconductor manufacturing industry. In the resource‐based view of the …

The field of strategic management, like other social science disciplines, is organized around
a central research question. That question is:“Why do some firms persistently outperform …

Drawing on work from behavioral learning theory in psychology, this study examines the
influence of prior organizational acquisition experience on the performance of acquisitions …

Drawing on neoinstitutional and learning theories, we distinguish three distinct modes of
selective interorganizational imitation: frequency imitation (copying very common practices) …