Information processing and organizational structure
Information processing and organizational structure
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DOI：
10.1016/s0167-2681(98)00096-1
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发表时间：
1998-08-30
影响因子：
2.2
通讯作者：
Watkins, WE
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作者：
DeCanio, SJ;Watkins, WE
企业和其他组织的标准经济学理论强调利润最大化是可预测行为的基础。然而，越来越多的统计和案例研究证据表明，真实的企业并没有按照新古典主义框架的要求行事。企业可以简单地被建模为一个信息处理代理网络，而不是用更复杂的最大化模型来表示。因此，企业的行动只是网络结构和代理人的信息处理能力的函数。这种方法可以用来解释组织行为的一些特征，包括技术扩散的过程。它还表明，最佳组织结构的推导可能在计算上是复杂的，对经济理论和政策发展有许多影响。(C)1998 Elsevier Science B.V.保留所有权利。
Standard economic theories of the firm land other organizations) stress profit maximization as the foundation for derivation of predictable behavior. Yet statistical and case-study evidence continues to accumulate that real firms do not act as required by the neoclassical framework. Instead of being represented by ever more elaborate maximization models, the firm can be modeled simply as a network of information-processing agents. The actions of the firm are then a function only of the network structure and the information-processing capabilities of the agents. This approach can be used to explain a number of features of organizational behavior, including the process of technological diffusion. It also suggests that derivation of the optimal organizational structure may be computationally complex, with a number of implications for economic theory and policy development. (C) 1998 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.