Organizational restructuring in response to changes in information- processing technology

Review of Economic Design

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 295-305

  Cukrowski, Jacek ^a   Baniak, Andrzej ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS   (Czech Republic)

^b CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Decision making; Hierarchy; Information processing; Organizational restructuring; Technological changes

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010072770     PISSN: 14344742     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s100580050039     Document Type: Article

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