Information Structures for Single Echelon Organizations,

Abstract

A methodology for designing the information structures for decision makers who comprise the boundary between an organization and its environment is presented. The environment is modeled as a source that generates symbols or messages that the organization members must process without being overloaded. Two basic information reduction strategies are considered: (1) creation of self contained tasks, and (2) creation of slack resources. The former leads to the partitioning of the input signal and the parallel processing of the partition; the latter to alternate processing where each decision maker receives signals according to some deterministic rule but is given more time to process them, i.e., a delay is introduced. These two strategies are then integrated to produce a variety of information structures for special cases. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA113424

Entities

People

  • Alexander H. Levis
  • Debra A. Stabile
  • Susan A. Hall

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

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  • Algorithms
  • Alphabets
  • Computer Programming
  • Distribution Functions
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  • Frequency
  • Information Processing
  • Mathematical Models
  • Mathematical Programming
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  • Optimization
  • Organizational Structure
  • Parallel Computing
  • Parallel Processing
  • Probability
  • Probability Distributions
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