The cost-quantity relations and the diverse patterns of 'learning by doing': Evidence from India
| Autor: | Nanditha Mathew, Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Dosi, Giovanni, Grazzi, Marco, Mathew, Nanditha |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Strategy and Management
Strategy and Management1409 Tourism PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH Learning curves Learning-by-doing Process innovation Product innovation STUDYING TECHNOLOGICAL-PROGRESS SEMICONDUCTOR INDUSTRY TECHNICAL CHANGE FUNCTIONAL-APPROACH INCREASING RETURNS EXPERIENCE CURVES ENERGY TECHNOLOGY POLICY FIRMS O3 Product differentiation Management Science and Operations Research Microeconomics Management of Technology and Innovation 0502 economics and business Economics ddc:330 Production (economics) Product (category theory) 050207 economics Leisure and Hospitality Management Learning curve power law 05 social sciences Circumstantial evidence process innovation Learning-by-doing (economics) Strategy and Management1409 Tourism Leisure and Hospitality Management Commerce Capital (economics) product innovation L6 learning curves D24 Settore SECS-P/02 - politica economica 050203 business & management D22 |
| Zdroj: | Research Policy |
| Popis: | “Learning-by-doing” is usually identified as a process whereby performance increases with experience in production. Of course such form of learning is complementary to other patterns of capability accumulation. Still, it is fundamental to assess its importance in the process of development. The paper investigates different patterns of “learning by doing”, studying learning curves at product level in a catching-up country, India. Cost-quantity relationships differ a lot across products belonging to sectors with different “technological intensities”. We find also, puzzlingly, in quite a few cases, that the relation price/cumulative quantities is increasing. We conjecture that this is in fact due to quality improvement and ‘vertical’ product differentiation. Circumstantial evidence rests on the ways differential learning patterns are affected by firm spending on research and capital investments. Finally, our evidence suggests that “learning”, or performance improvement over time is not just a by-product of the mere repetition of the same production activities, as sometimes reported in previous studies, but rather it seems to be shaped by deliberate firm learning efforts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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