Information technology and organization design: Locating decisions and information

Management Science

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1321-1335

  Nault, Barrie R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Centralization Decentralization; Collocation; Decision Rights; Information Asymmetry; Network Externalities; Organizational Form

Indexed keywords

COSTS; DECISION MAKING; DEMONSTRATIONS; MARKETING; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DECENTRALIZED NODES; ORGANIZATION DESIGN;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 0032181339     PISSN: 00251909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.44.10.1321     Document Type: Article

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