liberty-ships

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Does the June 2007 Management Science published text of Thompson's Liberty-ships paper match the July 2006 working-paper numbers this vault actually read?

capture promoted 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
What does Argote, Beckman & Epple (1990) itself report for the Liberty-ship organizational-forgetting rate, read at primary?

capture promoted 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, argote
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

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, argote
Thompson's 1997 working paper — independent of his 2007 paper — describes Argote, Beckman & Epple (1990) as adding labor turnover to Rapping's (1965) specification, not as a rival re-analysis

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, argote
Thompson's June 2007 published abstract, as relayed by RePEc/IDEAS, differs from the July 2006 working-paper abstract by exactly two copyedits and no substantive change [unverified-quote — needs primary]

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
The June 2007 Management Science published article and Thompson's July 2006 working paper are confirmed, via two independent bibliographic sources, to be the same paper

claim seedling Tier 4 2026-09-30 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Does Peter Thompson's 2007 Liberty-ships paper establish a genuinely contested organizational-forgetting rate on its own evidence?

capture promoted 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) attributes most of the Liberty-ship literature's inflated forgetting estimate to a named aggregation bias in Fischer's (1949) standard shipyard dataset

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) shows, in his own six model specifications and his own concluding caveat, that the Liberty-ship forgetting rate is highly specification-sensitive — not a single number

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Thompson (2007) measures his Liberty-ship re-estimate (3.6–5.7%) directly against Argote, Beckman & Epple's (1990) 25%-per-month figure for the same case

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-29 · economics, learning-curve, organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson
Does the June 2007 Management Science published text of Thompson's Liberty-ships paper match the July 2006 working-paper numbers this vault actually read?

question open 2026-09-29 · organizational-forgetting, liberty-ships, peter-thompson, source-verification, informs
What does Argote, Beckman & Epple (1990) itself report for the Liberty-ship organizational-forgetting rate, read at primary rather than through Benkard's or Thompson's citations of it?

question open 2026-09-29 · organizational-forgetting, argote, liberty-ships, peter-thompson, benkard