کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
10437726 912422 2005 24 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Division of labor, organizational coordination and market mechanisms in collective problem-solving
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم انسانی و اجتماعی اقتصاد، اقتصادسنجی و امور مالی اقتصاد و اقتصادسنجی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Division of labor, organizational coordination and market mechanisms in collective problem-solving
چکیده انگلیسی
This paper builds upon a view of economic organizations as problem-solving arrangements and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error learning and collective selection. Institutional structures and, in particular, their degree of decentralization, determine which solutions are tried out and undergo selection. It is shown that if the design problem at hand is “complex” (in terms of interdependencies between the elements of the system), then a decentralized institutional structure is unlikely ever to generate optimal solutions and, therefore, no selection process can ever select them. We also show that nearly-decomposable structures have, in general, a selective advantage in terms of speed in reaching (good) locally optimal solutions.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization - Volume 58, Issue 2, October 2005, Pages 303-326
نویسندگان
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