PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOURS, ORGANISATIONAL FORMS (original) (raw)

Problem-solving behavior, organizational forms, and the complexity of tasks

The sms blackwell handbook of …, 2003

Paper prepared for Dynacom Project (European Union, TSER, DGXII) in collaboration with the UK Complex Product Systems Innovation Centre (ESRC funded). Comments by Connie Helfat and Keith Pavitt helped improving along various drafts of the work. dominant (incentive-centred) formulation of agency in organisations. Section 3 presents the building blocks of an evolutionary theory of PSB and firm organisation, representing PSB as a form of complex design activity. The model -spelled out in more details in and -develops upon a 'Simonian' representation of PSB grounded on the notions of combination of elementary physical and cognitive acts, and de-composability of firm behaviour and structure in relation to particular product or process outcomes .

Organizational learning, problem solving and the division of labour

Economics, bounded rationality and the cognitive …, 1992

The paper suggests that organizations perform a more complex function than the market; i.e. they take on the function of designing the division of labour and the function of coordinating the tasks so divided , while the market limits itself to coordinating the activities of its agents within a structure of the division of labour that has already been established. In this context a formal representation of the process by which new forms of the division of labour , or new procedures , are internally generated by organizations is presented . On this the firm is described as an organization which cannot be completely reduced to the market, in so far as it is able, unlike the market, to transform its own organizational forms. To this end the behaviour of individuals acting in organizations is described as "intelligent" behaviour : decisions are viewed as the final act of a complex process of reasoning based on inference, learning and discovery

Foundations of Management 2011 nr 2

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A Knowledge-Based Theory of the Firm--The Problem-Solving Perspective

Organization Science, 2004

I n this paper we develop a knowledge-based theory of the firm. While existing knowledge-based theory focuses on the efficiency of hierarchy in economizing on knowledge exchange, we develop a theory of the firm that focuses on the efficiency of alternative organizational forms in generating knowledge or capability. Our theory begins with the problem as the basic unit of analysis, arguing that a problem's complexity influences the optimal method of solution search and the optimal means of organizing that search. The distinguishing feature that differentiates among organizational alternatives is the different way each resolves conflict over the selection of solution trials, that is, the way it chooses the path of search. Our theory predicts that efficiency demands that these governance alternatives be matched in a discriminating way to problems based on their associated benefits and costs in governing solution search. Thus, our theory is among the first to simultaneously treat both the boundary choice (i.e., internal versus external) and the choice among alternative internal approaches to organizing.

Foundations of Management 2012 nr 2

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in order to provide an international platform of thought and scientific concepts exchange in the field of managerial sciences. This new publishing forum aims at the construction of synergy between two parallel trends in managerial sciences: social and economical. Social trend originates from economic universities and academies and the engineering trend comes from factories and technical universities. Three of the great representatives of the engineering trend in managerial sciences on the break of the XIX and XX century, all created the universal foundations of the management sciences:

Economic Foundations of Strategy

decision making by a business firm that, in my judgment, has stood the test of time. present the rudiments of a behavioral theory of the firm that have proven to be relevant both to economic theory and to the theory of complex organizations. take up where Administrative Behavior (1947) left off ---attempting to understand decision making in its most general sense and, in particular, to show that economics and psychology could contribute to illuminating organizational decision-making processes. More specifically, is concerned with explaining why there has been so little mutual influence of economics and psychology upon each other, why a deeper dialogue needs to be developed between these two disciplines, and what the subject matter of their discourse could be.

PROBLEM-SOLVING BEHAVIOURS, ORGANISATIONAL FORMS (original) (raw)

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