The article is assigned to the methodological provisions of philosophy control. organization and management principle were developed. Different types activity system indicators are considered. main warehouses control in organizational structure determined. characteristics a flexible data banks, which contain information from costing system, calculation profit etc. given. Problems typical shortc...

It is a common observation in anthropology that larger societies tend to be more complex than smaller ones, and both size and complexity are normally considered to be major axes of variability in social evolution. Indeed, various measures of social-system size and organizational complexity are highly correlated Naroll (1956), for example, reports strong positive relationships between the popula...

Standard economic theories of the firm (and other organizations) stress profit maximization as the foundation for derivation of predictable behavior. Yet statistical and case-study evidence continues to accumulate that real firms do not act as required by the neoclassical framework. Instead of being represented by ever more elaborate maximization models, the firm can be modeled simply as a netw...

We examine how a firm’s formal organizational structure affects its ability to cope with interdependent decisions. An agent-based simulation, in which firms struggle to discover good sets of decisions, allows us to examine four coordinating mechanisms that have rarely been analyzed jointly: the grouping of related decisions under a single subordinate, a vertical hierarchy that reviews proposals...

Gray marketing, the selling of branded goods outside of manufacturer-authorized channels, is a factor in many industries. Using a model of differentiated Cournot competition, we analyze how gray markets affect the strategy used to enter low-priced foreign markets. In particular, we examine how much autonomy a firm should give its foreign subsidiary. When production in the foreign country is det...

The effect of organizational communication structure on performance is studied using a project selection framework in which heterogeneous, rational agents can reject or accept projects. A hierarchy performs better than a polyarchy in tough environments, whereas the reverse holds in friendly environments. Hierarchies can be too strict from a social welfare point of view. Indeed, if the value of ...

Dynamic inter-organizational business processes are necessary to enable the flexible creation of partnerships in areas such as e-commerce and supply-chain-management. Although many information system architectures for the support of static inter-organizational business processes exist, such architectures are still not available for supporting dynamic inter-organizational business processes. In ...

Using panel data from manufacturing firms in Cameroon, this study investigates the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on firms’ productivity in Cameroon. The empirical model is derived from the flexible Translog production function. The strategic complementarities between ICT-capital and organizational changes are accounted for. We estimate our model using the SystemGen...