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specialization versus variety: a standalone construct

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the trade-off in repeated work between productivity gains from doing the same task and gains from task variety over longer horizons.

In operations management, specialization versus variety refers to the trade-off in repeated work between productivity gains from doing the same task and gains from task variety over longer horizons. This meaning comes from Staats (2012) in Management Science.[1]

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operation1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructproductivity3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructsspecialization4 fields · 5 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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  1. Staats, B. R., & Gino, F. (2012). Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank. Management Science, 58(6), 1141-1159. https://doi.org/10.1287/mnsc.1110.1482

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