Learning Curves

Theory, Models, and Applications

Mohamad Y. Jaber

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN: 9781439807408
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Management
• Index: Business

Written by international contributors, Learning Curves: Theory, Models, and Applications first draws a learning map that shows where learning is involved within organizations, then examines how it can be sustained, perfected, and accelerated. The book reviews empirical findings in the literature in terms of different sources for learning and partia

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Contents
• Preface
• Editor
• Contributors
• Chapter 1: Learning Curves: The State of the Art and Research Directions
• Chapter 2: Inside the Learning Curve: Opening the Black Box of the Learning Curve
• Chapter 3: Learning and Thinking Systems
• Chapter 4: From Men and Machines to the Organizational Learning Curve
• Chapter 5: Management at the Flat End of the Learning Curve: An Overview of Interaction Value Analysis
• Chapter 6: Log-Linear and Non-Log-Linear Learning Curve Models for Production Research and Cost Estimation
• Chapter 7: Using Parameter Prediction Models to Forecast Post-Interruption Learning
• Chapter 8: Introduction to Half-Life Theory of Learning Curves
• Chapter 9: Influence of Breaks in Learning on Forgetting Curves
• Chapter 10: Learning and Forgetting: Implications for Workforce Flexibility in AMT Environments
• Chapter 11: Accelerated Learning by Experimentation
• Chapter 12: Linking Quality to Learning – A Review
• Chapter 13: Latent Growth Models for Operations Management Research: A Methodological Primer
• Chapter 14: The Lot Sizing Problem and the Learning Curve: A Review
• Chapter 15: Learning Effects in Inventory Models with Alternative Shipment Strategies
• Chapter 16: Steady-State Characteristics under Processing-Time Learning and Forgetting
• Chapter 17: Job Scheduling in Customized Assembly Lines Affected by Workers’ Learning
• Chapter 18: Industrial Work Measurement and Improvement through Multivariate Learning Curves
• Chapter 19: Do Professional Services Learn, Sustain, and Transfer Knowledge?
• Chapter 20: Learning Curves in Project Management: The Case of a “Troubled” Implementation
• Chapter 21: Timing Software Upgrades to Maximize Productivity: A Decision Analysis Model Based on the Learning Curve
• Chapter 22: Learning Curves for CAD Competence Building of Novice Trainees
• Chapter 23: Developments in Interpreting Learning Curves and Applications to Energy Technology Policy
• Back Cover