Autore: Fioretti, Guido
Titolo: Organization structure and the evolution of knowledge
Periodico: International Center for Economics Research, Torino. ICER - Working papers series
Anno: 2000 - Fascicolo: 17 - Pagina iniziale: 1 - Pagina finale: 27

This essay provides quantitative tools to evaluate the information processing capabilities of an organization, with a particular stress on information categorization. It employs a classifier system in order to model information classification and knowledge construction, and it develops indicators of information waste and information processing duplication. These tools enable a comparison of alternative organization structures from the point of view of information management. Two examples show the power of the model on basic issues in organization science: i) a comparison between hierarchies and "multihierarchies", alleged to capture the organization structures adopted by some Japanese firms, and ii) the law of decreasing production time with cumulative output, known as the "learning curve".




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