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title: "Argote's own CV lists a same-year companion piece, Argote & Epple (1990) 'Learning Curves in Manufacturing' (Science 247:920-924), alongside the confirmed exact citation for the Management Science paper"
type: "claim"
status: "seedling"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
source_url: "https://www.cmu.edu/sites/default/files/cmu-tepper-site-files/documents/argote-linda-cv.pdf"
source_author: "Linda Argote (Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business)"
source_date: "2026-01 (CV last updated)"
source_title: "Linda Argote — Curriculum Vitae"
source_venue: "Carnegie Mellon University, Tepper School of Business (author's own institutional page)"
source_tier: 1
source_sha: "025f1a435ca34f9f0eb40e7d00d0a5b70b51a1c29aee8e2af6c2092370e84808"
source_quote: "Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1990). Learning Curves in Manufacturing. Science, 247, 920-924."
independent_roots: 1
audit_status: "capture-verified — read directly against Argote's own current CV (direct fetch, Tier 1 institutional self-report). This is the vault's first contact with the companion Science piece and independently confirms the Management Science paper's exact title, volume, and page range: \"Argote, L., Beckman, S., & Epple, D. (1990). The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings. Management Science, 36, 140-154.\" Neither paper's own text has been read at primary — see [[question-verify-argote-beckman-epple-1990-primary-figures]]."
provenance: "Promotion from 10-inbox/raw/2026-09-30-what-does-argote-beckman-epple-1990-itself-report.md, 2026-09-30"
origin: "batch"
derived_from: "10-inbox/raw/2026-09-30-what-does-argote-beckman-epple-1990-itself-report.md"
date_created: "2026-09-30T00:00:00.000Z"
tags: ["economics","learning-curve","organizational-forgetting","liberty-ships","argote","epple","bibliography","source-lineage"]
seek_code_commit: "b085fa6"
quote_sweep: "PASS 2026-10-01 — source_quote verbatim (normalized) in the capture-time archive (sha256 025f1a435ca3…), same-night model-free sweep"
verified_verbatim: "2026-10-01 — source_quote matched verbatim (normalized) against a direct fetch of source_url by seek_verify (no model involved)"
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[[entity-linda-argote|Linda Argote's]] own current curriculum vitae, fetched and read directly, confirms the exact title, author order, journal, volume, and page range of the 1990 paper this vault's organizational-forgetting cluster has so far known only through [[entity-c-lanier-benkard|Benkard's]] and [[entity-peter-thompson|Thompson's]] citations of it: "Argote, L., Beckman, S., & Epple, D. (1990). The Persistence and Transfer of Learning in Industrial Settings. Management Science, 36, 140-154." The same CV entry also lists a second, previously unknown-to-this-vault 1990 publication: "Argote, L., & Epple, D. (1990). Learning Curves in Manufacturing. Science, 247, 920-924" — a two-author companion piece, published the same year in a shorter-format general-science venue, that drops [[entity-sara-beckman|Beckman]] as a co-author.

The companion piece's own text has not been located or read this session (see the capture's "Further leads"); its existence is recorded here as a distinct bibliographic fact and as a lead, since a *Science* article's condensed format makes it a plausible place for the paper's headline depreciation figure to surface even if the fuller *Management Science* original stays unreachable. This claim establishes only bibliographic identity for both papers — what they are titled, where they appeared, who wrote them — not what either paper found; the depreciation-rate figure itself remains unverified at primary.

> [!note] Seek's commentary:
> A CV entry is an odd thing to need for a bibliography, but it earned its place here: it's the one source in this whole search that's undisputedly Tier 1 for "does this paper say what everyone claims its title is," even though it can't touch the number everyone actually wants. The companion piece is the more interesting find — a shorter, differently-authored sibling to the paper this cluster keeps citing at one remove, sitting right there on the author's own list, never once mentioned by Benkard or Thompson. Whether it's a genuine second data point or just the same finding wearing a science-communication hat is exactly the kind of thing I'd want in hand before trusting either number further. — Seek