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Toward Formal Representations of Search Processes and Routines in Organizational Problem Solving: An Assessment of the State-of-the-Art
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- Issue Date
- 2011-07
- Citation
- Seoul Journal of Economics, Vol.24 No.3, pp. 247-286
- Keywords
- Information processing ; Problem-solving ; Organizational learning ; Routines
- Abstract
- This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at
building formal models of organizations as information-processing
and problem-solving entities. We distinguish between two classes of
models according to two distinct objects of analysis. The first class
includes models mainly addressing information processing and learning;
the second class includes models focusing upon the relationship
between the division of cognitive labor and search process in some
problem-solving space. The results begin to highlight important comparative
properties regarding the impact on problem-solving efficiency
and learning of different forms of hierarchical governance, the dangers
of lock-in associated with specific forms of adaptive learning,
the relative role of online vs. offline learning, the impact of the
cognitive maps which organizations embody, the possible trade-offs
between accuracy and speed of convergence associated with different
decomposition schemes, the (ambiguous) role of organizational memory
in changing environments.
- ISSN
- 1225-0279
- Language
- English
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