Organisation und Koordination von Wissen und Wissensträgern in Organisationen

知识是很大一部分经济活动的燃料，事实上，作为最重要的生产要素，知识几乎超过了劳动力和资本。然而，与后两者相比，组织内知识的有效分配和协调显然仍然是一个研究不足的主题。为了克服这一缺点，我计划制定一个组织的程式化模式，确定并相互联系：(1)最佳知识结构(即确定组织中哪些成员应获得什么知识，谁应专攻何种程度)；(2)最佳组织结构(即确定角色或工作及其安排，以及通过沟通渠道将其相互联系)；(3)将待决任务与组织中拥有足以执行这些任务的知识的成员相匹配的过程。作为一个基本前提，需要建立一个正式的框架，用于推理个人持有的知识以及像组织这样的复杂社会系统持有的知识。为此，将认知逻辑的一些见解和工具整合到主流经济学中似乎是一种创新和有前途的方法。

Knowledge is fuel to a great part of economic activity and indeed nearly eclipses labor and capital as the most important production factor. Yet, compared to the latter two, the effective allocation and coordination of knowledge within organizations clearly remains an under-researched topic. To tackle this shortcoming, I plan to develop a stylized model of the organization, determining and interlinking: (i) the optimal knowledge structure (i.e. defining which members of the organization should acquire what knowledge and who should specialize to which degree); (ii) the optimal organizational structure (i.e. defining roles or jobs and their arrangement, as well as their interconnection by channels of communication); and (iii) the process of matching pending tasks with those members of the organization possessing that knowledge adequate for their execution. As a basic prerequisite, a formal framework for reasoning about individually-held knowledge as well as that held by complex social systems like an organization needs to be established. Toward this end, integrating some insights and tools of epistemic logic into mainstream economics seems an innovative and promising approach.