Design models for hierarchical organizations: computation, information, and decentralization

Design Models for Hierarchical Organizations: Computation, Information, and Decentralization provides state-of-the-art research on organizational design models, and in particular on mathematical models. Each chapter views the organization as an information processing entity. Thus, mathematical model...

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Other Authors: Burton, Richard M. (Editor) , Obel, Børge (Editor)
Format: Edited Volume
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA s.l. Springer US Imprint: Springer 1995
Volumes / Articles: Show Volumes / Articles.
DOI:10.1007/978-1-4615-2285-0
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Author Notes:edited by Richard M. Burton, Børge Obel
Table of Contents:
  • Section 1: Mathematical Programming Models, Hierarchy and DecentralizationMathematical Contingency Modelling for Organizational Design: Taking Stock
  • Design Insights from Alternative Decompositions
  • Primal and Dual Decomposition as Organizational Design: Price and/or Resource Directive Decomposition
  • Aggregation Approaches to Decentralized Planning Structures
  • General Mathematical Programming Models in Multi-Level Planning
  • Section 2: Hierarchical Planning Models
  • A Conceptual Framework for Hierarchical Planning and Bargaining
  • Hierarchical Negotiations
  • Hierarchical Production Planning
  • Section 3: Counterpoint; The Individual and the Emergent Structure
  • The Emergence of Organizational Structures
  • Technological Spillovers and Incentive Schemes for R&D
  • Judging with Uncertainty in Diagnosis.