Arbeitspapier
Complexity, Robustness, and Performance
This paper analyses the relationship between organizational complexity ( the degree of detail of information necessary to correctly assign agents to positions), robustness (the relative loss of performance due to mis-allocated agents), and performance. More complex structures are not necessarily more profitable, but are less robust. One of the least complex structures always performs worst. Superior organizational performance may vanish completely due to mis-allocated agents. Organizational performance can be enhanced through training agents; re-assigning them when adequate knowledge about their characteristics is obtained through monitoring; simplifying the organizational structure; and influencing the environment. The trade-offs involved are analysed.
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Series: Tinbergen Institute Discussion Paper ; No. 02-048/1
- Classification
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Wirtschaft
- Subject
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Organisationstheorie
Prinzipal-Agent-Theorie
Wirtschaftlichkeit
Theorie
Komplexitätsmanagement
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Visser, B.
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Veröffentlichung
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Tinbergen Institute
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Amsterdam and Rotterdam
- (when)
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2002
- Handle
- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:45 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Visser, B.
- Tinbergen Institute
Time of origin
- 2002
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