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From the mainstream economic theory, unregulated free markets usually are optimal. Regulation is warranted only when market is imperfect. However, all organisms and organizations regulate their internal environments. Many also regulate their external environments. In general, “higher”...
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Why do innovative organizations often reallocate authority? I propose a simple theory in which innovation with new technologies generates an endogenous need for coordination among divisions in the presence of negative cross-divisional externalities. A division manager has private information...
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Many of us would be surprised to learn that the very logic of size, power and control which brought success and stability in the past have also been the source of disorder, chaos and attrition of energy and enthusiasm in organizations. In the past, organizations were desired for their size,...
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The geography of organization denotes the interdisciplinary study of the spatial aspects of organizations and processes of organizing. Geography as well as organization and management studies are the major fields to contribute to this area. Three major strands of research can be distinguished....
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This paper investigates the performance of three forms of organizations: hierarchies, oiligarchies and committees. Sah and Stiglitz (1986) show that hierarchies and polyarchies differ in their information processing abilities in terns of type-1 and type-1 I errors, with 'fallible' agents making...
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Obviously one of the threshold questions in the field of organizational studies is defining exactly what is meant by the term “organization.” There are a wide variety of definitions with the words and emphasis changing depending upon the academic school of thought. The simple neoclassical...
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aspects of an enterprise. Within the MEMO languages, the Organisation Modelling Language (MEMO OrgML) is of outstanding … relevance. It allows for creating elaborate models of business process types (organisational dynamics) and of organisation … requirements related to the design of organisation modelling languages. The analysis was guided by a method for developing domain …
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In multifarious offices, where social interaction is necessary in order to share and locate essential information, awareness becomes a concurrent process that amplifies the exigency of easy routes for personnel to be able to access this information, deferred or decentralized, in a formalized and...
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