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Organizational restructuring in response to changes in information-processing technology

Andrzej Baniak and Jacek Cukrowski

Review of Economic Design, 1999, vol. 4, issue 4, 295-305

Abstract: This paper examines the effects of changes in information-processing technology on the efficient organizational forms of data-processing in decision-making systems. Data-processing is modelled in the framework of the dynamic parallel processing model of associative computation with an endogenous set-up costs of the processors. In such a model, the conditions for efficient organization of information-processing are defined and the architecture of the efficient structures is considered. It is shown that decreasing returns to scale of the function describing data- processing technology and the information overload of the system are necessary and sufficient conditions for the hierarchical information- processing, respectively. Moreover, the size of the efficient structures is determined exclusively by their information workload and the current state of information-processing technology.

Keywords: Technological changes; organizational restructuring; hierarchy; decision-making; information-processing (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D79 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1999-12-15
Note: Received: 5 June 1996 / Accepted: 17 June 1999
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