Managing hierarchies in a flat World

IIE Annual Conference and Expo 2007 - Industrial Engineering's Critical Role in a Flat World - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 1266-1271

  Wernz, Christian ^a   Deshmukh, Abhijit ^a  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision making; Dependency graphs; Game theory; Hierarchy; Organizational design

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE DATA PROCESSING; AGENTS; ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN; AUTOMATION; DECISION THEORY; EXHIBITIONS; FLOW INTERACTIONS; GAME THEORY; GOVERNMENT DATA PROCESSING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; PROJECT MANAGEMENT; STABILIZERS (AGENTS); SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; TECHNOLOGY;

(E ,2E) THEORY; AGENT INTERACTIONS; ANNUAL CONFERENCE; COMPLEX DECISION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS; COST-EFFICIENT; DECISION MAKERS (DM); DECISION MAKING MODELS; INFORMATION PRIVACY; MULTI AGENTS; OPTIMAL STRATEGIES; ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGNS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 44949137595     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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