Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production
Hierarchies and the Organization of Knowledge in Production
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DOI：
10.2139/ssrn.241055
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发表时间：
2000-09
影响因子：
8.2
通讯作者：
Luis Garicano
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作者：
Luis Garicano
本文研究了沟通是如何实现知识的专门化获取的。它表明，当把问题与知道如何解决问题的人匹配起来代价高昂时，基于知识的层次结构是组织知识获取的一种自然方式。在这样的组织中，生产工人获得最常见或最容易遇到的问题的知识，专门的问题解决者处理更特殊或更困难的问题。该模型与组织理论中的风格化事实相吻合，并用来分析生产和信息技术的变化对组织设计的影响。
This paper studies how communication allows for the specialized acquisition of knowledge. It shows that a knowledge‐based hierarchy is a natural way to organize the acquisition of knowledge when matching problems with those who know how to solve them is costly. In such an organization, production workers acquire knowledge about the most common or easiest problems confronted, and specialized problem solvers deal with the more exceptional or harder problems. The paper shows that the model is consistent with stylized facts in the theory of organizations and uses it to analyze the impact of changes in production and information technology on organizational design.