Information Processing in Firms

本项目研究企业内部的信息处理 影响了他们的内部组织和经济， 规模 公司的信息处理需要时间;延迟是 因为旧信息不如新信息有价值， 信息. 在一定程度上， 在信息处理中使用更多的资源。 这个项目 将决定给定资源可实现的延迟。 它 将通过将公司的管理者建模为 并行处理计算机中的元素。 研究人员已经得到了非随机到达的结果 这些数据表明， 信息处理有效。 他们会明确考虑 公司的决策问题，其中处理的信息是 为了计算延迟的成本。 研究人员 接下来将确定处理信息的需求如何影响 返回到规模，考虑到必须 在一个企业中处理的数量随着企业的规模而增加。 然后 当数据到达时， 除了周期性的，最常见的情况是随机的， 会计数据。 这项开创性的研究有望提供新的见解 关于信息在企业组织中的作用。 它还将填补我们对以下问题的理解中的一个重要空白： 组织和市场。

This project investigates how information processing within firms influences their internal organization and their economies of scale. Information processing in a firm takes time; delay is costly because old information is not as valuable as new information. It is possible, up to a point, to reduce the delay in information processing by using more resources. This project will determine what delay is attainable for given resources. It will be done by modelling the managers of a firm as processing elements in a parallel processing computer. The investigators have obtained results for non-stochastic arrivals of data, and these indicate that the hierarchial organization of information processing is effective. They will consider explicitly the firm's decision problems in which the processed information is used, in order to calculate the cost of delay. The researchers will next determine how the need to process information affects returns to scale, given that the amount of information that must be processed in a firm increases with the size of the firm. Then they will study information processing when data arrives stochastically, as is most commonly the case except for periodic accounting data. This pioneering research promises to provide new insights concerning the role of information in the organization of firms. It will also fill an important void in our understanding of organizations and markets.