How Much Did the Liberty Shipbuilders Learn? New Evidence for an Old Case Study [PDF]
This paper uses previously unavailable historical records to show that several assumptions central to a learning by doing explanation of productivity growth in the construction of Liberty ships during World War II are mistaken.
Peter Thompson
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Transformation of Advanced Contract Types for the Shipbuilding Industry with Risk Analysis
Brodogradnja : An International Journal of Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering for Research and Development, 2014 Many shipyards today contract vessels based on the traditional Lump Sum Fixed Price (LSFP) contract. Even though the construction of vessels from contract to delivery lasts from a year to longer, there are limited mechanisms available to mitigate for risk during the project evolution, especially in the case of prototype vessels, which are being built ...
Kolić, Damir +2 more
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Are "outsiders" in? Exploring the impact of outsourced workers' perceived insider status and job value status on job performance. [PDF]
Front Psychol, 2023 Yang JF +6 more
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Better Auditing for Better Contracting: Eight Recommendations to Reform the Defense Contract Audit Agency and Other Federal Government Audit [PDF]
, 2012 Examines why the DCAA's audits of government contractors sometimes fail. Proposes reforms to strengthen oversight, including giving auditors authority to subpoena contractor records and shifting from limited to risk-based audits and random ...
Pratap Chatterjee
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Effect of Unmeasured Time Hours on Occupational Noise Exposure Assessment in the Shipbuilding Process in Korea. [PDF]
Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2021 Shin J, Lee S, Lee K, Kim H.
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The Air Warfare Destroyer program [PDF]
This paper assesses the progress of SEA 4000—Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD) from its inception at the start of the previous decade until August 2014.
David Watt
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Industrial district effects and innovation in the Tuscan shipbuilding industry [PDF]
The aim of the present work is to investigate innovative processes within a geographical cluster, and thus contribute to the debate on the effects of industrial clusters on innovation capacity.
Francesco Capone, Luciana Lazzeretti
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Collaborative support for distributed design [PDF]
, 2008 A number of large integrated projects have been funded by the European Commission within both FP5 and FP6 that have aimed to develop distributed design solutions within the shipbuilding industry. VRShips-ROPAX was funded within FP5 and aimed to develop a
Duffy, A.H.B., Whitfield, R.I.
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Price Formation of Dry Bulk Carriers in the Chinese Shipbuilding Industry [PDF]
In this paper we present, for the first time, the price formation of China’s dry bulk carrier using vessel prices quoted by major Chinese shipyards in actual shipbuilding orders. This allows us to investigate the relationship of price and determinants in
Liping Jiang
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Application of artificial intelligence technologies in metallographic analysis for quality assessment in the shipbuilding industry. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2022 Emelianov V +4 more
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