---
title: "Linda Argote"
type: "entity"
entity_kind: "person"
status: "hub"
canonical_name: "Linda Argote"
aliases: []
first_seen: "2026-07-24T00:00:00.000Z"
writer_model: "claude-sonnet-5"
connects_to: ["organizational forgetting","experience depreciation","C. Lanier Benkard","learning curve"]
---


Organizational-behavior researcher who, with coauthors Beckman and Epple (1990), originated the organizational-forgetting specification — experience depreciating by a constant factor each period — that C. Lanier Benkard later adopts and estimates for aircraft production. Her own study (ship production) found much faster forgetting (depreciation parameter 0.75–0.85, i.e. only 5–15% of experience retained per year) than Benkard's L-1011 estimate. Known to the vault so far only through Benkard's citation of her work, not through a direct read of her own paper.

## References
- [[claim-benkard-2000-estimate-implies-far-less-forgetting-than-prior-studies]] · [[claim-organizational-forgetting-can-reverse-the-learning-curve]]
- Related hubs: [[entity-c-lanier-benkard]] · [[entity-organizational-forgetting]]
- Captures: 2026-07-24-does-benkard-2000-report-the-organizational-forgetting-depreciation