RESOURCE ALLOCATION TO INFORMATION PROCESSING IN A FIRM (Alokacja zasobow w procesie przetwarzania informacji w firmie)

• Authors: Baniak Andrzej , Cukrowski Jacek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper provides a coherent framework which allows understanding the economics of information processing in the management of a firm. Data processing is modelled as a dynamic parallel-processing model of associative computation with an endogenous set-up cost. In such a model, the conditions for the efficient organization of data processing are defined, and the architecture of efficient structures is analyzed. It is shown that, as in computer systems, the so-called 'skip-level reporting' structures are efficient. However, if the information workload of managers cannot be equalized, then the best pattern of information workload has to be determined, and resources allocated to the managers have to be adjusted to it. The method of adjustment of resources to the information workload of managers in one-shot skip-level reporting structures is presented and an example of an organization of data processing in demand forecasting is considered.

Keywords

EN

DECENTRALIZATION; HIERARCHY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERNAL ORGANIZATION OF THE FIRM; RESOURCE ALLOCATION

Discipline

• ECONOMICS: ECONOMICS

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego we Wrocławiu
• Journal: Mathematical Economics
• Year: 2010
• Issue: 6(13)
• Pages: 5-20
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Baniak Andrzej

author

Cukrowski Jacek

• Andrzej Baniak, Wroclaw, University of Economics, Komandorska Street 118/120, 53-345 Wroclaw, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11PLAAAA10775