The Organization of Decentralized Information Processing
用决策理论模型刻画有限能力的管理者作为信息处理器，以处理器数量和决策延迟衡量效率，刻画了单次和重复决策下的高效网络结构，并讨论了分散化与规模报酬的含义。
In a decision-theoretic model of a firm, the author represents managers as information processors of limited capacity; efficiency is measured in terms of (1) the number of processors and (2) the delay between the receipt of information by the organization and the implementation of the decision. The author characterizes efficient networks for both one-shot and repeated regimes, as well as the corresponding 'production function' relating the number of items processed to the number of processors and the delay. He sketches some applications to common decision paradigms, and implications for decentralization and organizational returns to scale. Copyright 1993 by The Econometric Society.