Modelling Coordination in Organizations: Kevin Coordination Science Mit Sloan School of Management December 1990 (Classic Reprint) - Tapa blanda

Crowston, Kevin

 
9781332246151: Modelling Coordination in Organizations: Kevin Coordination Science Mit Sloan School of Management December 1990 (Classic Reprint)

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Coordination seems to be primarily an information processing task. One method other information-processing-based disciplines have used to gain insight into complex behaviours is to imagine how a computer could be programmed to reproduce them. In cognitive psychology, for example, computer models of learning or memory have been used to make theories about human information processing concrete and to generate further empirically testable hypotheses.

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Excerpt from Modelling Coordination in Organizations: Kevin Coordination Science Mit Sloan School of Management December 1990

Coordination seems to be primarily an information processing task. One method other information-processing-based disciplines have used to gain insight into complex behaviours is to imagine how a computer could be programmed to reproduce them. In cognitive psychology, for example, computer models of learning or memory have been used to make theories about human information processing concrete and to generate further empirically testable hypotheses.

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This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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Excerpt from Modelling Coordination in Organizations: Kevin Coordination Science Mit Sloan School of Management December 1990

What good are organizations? Obviously, organizations exist for many reasons. One of the most important is to channel the efforts of the organizations members in ways that allow the organization to accomplish things that no individual working alone could do. For example, a computer operating system is such a complex product that no one individual can be said to know how to design or build one, yet several organizations routinely do exactly that. This ability has a cost; much of the work done by members of a software company has little to do with actually writing software. Instead, these workers spend their time coordinating their actions and the actions of others. As yet, however, we have only a vague understanding of what coordination work is or how it is useful.

The end goal of my research is to provide a more principled definition of coordination and coordination work. To do so, however, requires the development of better analysis techniques. In this paper I will present such a technique and briefly discuss its implications for study of organizations and coordination.

Coordination seems to be primarily an information processing task. One method other information-processing-based disciplines have used to gain insight into complex behaviours is to imagine how a computer could be programmed to reproduce them. In cognitive psychology, for example, computer models of learning or memory have been used to make theories about human information processing concrete and to generate further empirically testable hypotheses.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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