Tradeoffs in Designing Organizations: Implications for New Forms of Human Organizations and Computer Systems

Malone, Thomas W.Smith, Stephen A.2021-02-162021-02-161984https://dl.eusset.eu/handle/20.500.12015/4127In this paper, we develop a model that can be applied to a wide range of problems in organizatio theory and computer science including: (1) explaining historical changes in the structure of American business organizations. (2) predicting changes in the structure of human organizations that may result from the widespread use of computers, and (3) analyzing the advantages and disadvantages of decentralized task scheduling in computer networks.enTradeoffs in Designing Organizations: Implications for New Forms of Human Organizations and Computer SystemsText