Informational and Organizational Impacts on Productivity: The Economics of Control and Reliability in Complex Production Process

该项目为以下方面提供了理论和计量方法： 分析先进的信息技术， 使用它们的组织的结构， 现代化的、复杂的、工业化的生产设施。研究 专注于建立的生产力和可靠性 生产设施，其最终目的是评估 新技术对过程监测和控制的影响 在这两个量化的方面的表现。的 研究议程有三个要素。 首先，它旨在推动 通过审查生产系统的选择， 过程控制和组织设计的技术， 将促进可靠性和生产力的提高， 更广泛地使用先进的信息技术。 第二，它提出了生产理论的新公式， 与微观层面的经验观察更直接相关 生产事件。 第三，该项目承担测试 其概念和方法研究的有用性， 具体应用这些，在组织和 信息技术对企业绩效的影响 具有重要经济意义，且记录非常完整 工业--美国运营的商业核电站 电力公司。

This project provides theoretical and econometric methods for analyzing how advanced information technologies, and the structures of the organizations using them, affect the performance of modern, complex, industrial production facilities. The research focusses upon the productivity and reliability of established production facilities, and its ultimate aim is to assess the impacts of new technologies for process monitoring and control upon these two quantitative dimensions of performance. The research agenda has three elements. First, it aims to advance the analysis of production systems by examining the choices of techniques for process control and organizational design that would promote improvement sin reliability and productivity via more extensive uses of sophisticated information technology. Second, it proposes novel formulations of production theory that relate more directly to empirical observations of micro level production events. Third, the project undertakes to test the usefulness of its conceptual and methodological researches by applying these concretely, in a study of organizational and information-technology impacts on the performance of an economically important and exceptionally well-documented industry--commercial nuclear power plants operated by U.S. electric utility companies.