Designing Workflow Coordination: Centralized Versus Market-Based Mechanisms

Information Systems Research

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 328-342

  Tan, Jui Chiew ^a   Harker, Patrick T ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bidding; Distributed Scheduling; Distributed Work; Intelligent Agent; Market Mechanisms Auction; Organizational Design; Organizational Structures; Workflow Coordination

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; INTELLIGENT AGENTS; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SCHEDULING;

BIDDING; DISTRIBUTED SCHEDULING; DISTRIBUTED WORK; MARKET MECHANISMS; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS; ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES; WORKFLOW COORDINATION;

REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 0033261457     PISSN: 10477047     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1287/isre.10.4.328     Document Type: Article

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