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Organizational decision making and distributed information
Author(s) -
Carley Kathleen M.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
systems engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.474
H-Index - 50
eISSN - 1520-6858
pISSN - 1098-1241
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1520-6858(1998)1:1<70::aid-sys7>3.0.co;2-6
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , organizational architecture , knowledge management , task (project management) , affect (linguistics) , computer science , complexity theory and organizations , quality (philosophy) , organizational learning , organizational performance , management science , management , artificial intelligence , engineering , psychology , economics , philosophy , communication , epistemology
In today's corporations, organizational decisions rest on the activities and information provided by a large number of individuals operating in a distributed fashion. The task environment, the organization's design, the intelligence and capabilities of the agents (humans and artificial) all combine in complex and non‐linear ways to affect the speed and quality of the organization's decisions. Increasingly, researchers interested in organizations are turning to computational modeling as a means for analyzing and theorizing about organizations. The outgrowth is a new perspective on organizations, a computational organizational theory, that is increasingly able to explain the way in which organizations learn, adapt, and alter their performance. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Syst Eng 1: 70‐81, 1998