ORGANIZATION DESIGN: THE EPISTEMIC INTERDEPENDENCE PERSPECTIVE

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Puranam, Phanish; Raveendran, Marlo; Knudsen, Thorbjorn
• 署名单位: University of London; London Business School; University of Southern Denmark
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• DOI: 10.5465/amr.2010.0535
• 发表日期: 2012
• 页码: 419-440
• 关键词: technology; COORDINATION; strategy; determinants; performance; INNOVATION; span; environments; EQUIFINALITY; architecture

摘要

We develop a novel analytical framework to study epistemic interdependence between agents and the resulting need for predictive knowledge as a basis for understanding information processing requirements in organizations and the implications for organization design. These two new constructs help to sharply distinguish interdependence between tasks and between agents and highlight why even interdependence between agents need not imply any need for information processing between them. They also help to refine key ideas about organization design.