Research on Learning in Industrial Settings: Persistence Turnover, and Transfer

学习是如何以及为什么在组织中发生的，它是否持续存在，以及如何转移它，人们知之甚少。本研究从实证角度考察了组织内学习的持续性和组织间学习的迁移。更替在学习中的作用及其持续性也进行了研究。这些分析是基于从一家生产先进喷气式飞机的航空航天业公司和同一家生产轻型卡车的汽车工业公司的三个工厂收集的数据。本研究估计了包含变量的生产函数，以评估持续、转移和劳动力流动在影响生产过程效率中的重要性。除了测试学习是否持续，是否转移，以及离职是否与学习速度有关外，本研究旨在建立一个整合并解释实证结果的组织学习理论模型。这项研究将推动关于学习为什么会在组织中发生以及它是否会持续和转移的科学知识。它应该对组织有影响，以提高他们的生产力，从而更有效地竞争。

Little is known about how and why learning occurs in organizations, whether it persists, and how to transfer it. The proposed research empirically investigates the persistence of learning within organizations and the transfer of learning across organizations. The role of turnover in learning and its persistence are also examined. The analyses are based on data collected from one firm in the aerospace industry producing an advanced jet and from three plants of the same firm in the automotive industry producing a light truck. The research estimates production functions with variables included to assess the importance of persistence, transfer and labor turnover in affecting the efficiency of the production process. In addition to testing whether learning persists, whether it transfers, and whether turnover is related to the rate of learning, the research aims to develop a theoretical model of learning in organizations that integrates and explains the empirical findings. The research will advance scientific knowledge about why learning occurs in organizations and whether it persists and transfers. It should have implications for organizations to improve their productivity and hence, compete more effectively.