The Design of Information Structures: Basic Allocation Strategies for Organizations,
Abstract
The problem of designing the allocation of information processing tasks to organization members who interact with the organization's environment is formulated. Two information strategies are considered for reducing the load on each member while accomplishing the overall task: creation of self contained tasks, and creation of slack resources. The former leads to parallel processing, while the latter is accomplished through alternate processing rules. The two basic strategies can be integrated to produce a wide variety of information structures. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 01, 1983
- Accession Number
- ADP002909
Entities
People
- A. H. Levis
- D. A. Stabile
Organizations
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology