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Decision Rules and Transactions, Organizations and Markets

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  • Helmy H. Baligh

    (Fuqua School of Business, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27706)

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Organizations and markets are defined as sets of people who are connected together by the logical orders of decision rule and transaction respectively. Super organizations are defined as sets of organizations connected by decision rules. The logical order is the basis of an arrangement of people or organizations. These concepts are developed in an unambiguous manner, and used to produce analytically useful definitions of pure and hybrid classes. The concepts are shown to be of value in the analysis of organizations and markets. The concept of the decision rule is used to define static organization structures, and to define dynamic task processes in them. Generalizations about organizations and markets are developed and put together to get new ones. Two classification schemes in the literature are simplified by a redefinition of their classes in terms of decision rules only. This not only integrates two seemingly different schemes, but it illustrates how useful the concept of the decision rule could be in analyzing and generalizing about organizations, other arrangements of persons, and arrangements of arrangements of persons.

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  • Helmy H. Baligh, 1986. "Decision Rules and Transactions, Organizations and Markets," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 32(11), pages 1480-1491, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:inm:ormnsc:v:32:y:1986:i:11:p:1480-1491
    DOI: 10.1287/mnsc.32.11.1480
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    1. Giampio Bracchi & Chiara Francalanci, 1997. "A Model for Information Processing Capacity: Formalizing the Impact of Structural and Information System Choices on Organizational Performance," Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, Springer, vol. 3(3), pages 173-198, September.
    2. Baligh, Helmy H., 1998. "The fit between the organization structure and its cultural setting: aspects of Islamic cultures," International Business Review, Elsevier, vol. 7(1), pages 39-49, February.
    3. Malone, Thomas W. & Massachusetts Institute of Technology., 1988. "What is coordination theory?," Working papers no. 182. Working paper (S, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    4. John W. Boudreau, 2004. "50th Anniversary Article: Organizational Behavior, Strategy, Performance, and Design in Management Science," Management Science, INFORMS, vol. 50(11), pages 1463-1476, November.
    5. Malone, Thomas W. & Crowston, Kevin., 1993. "The interdisciplinary study of coordination," Working papers 3630-93. CCSTR ; #157., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    6. Albino, Vito & Pontrandolfo, Pierpaolo & Scozzi, Barbara, 2002. "Analysis of information flows to enhance the coordination of production processes," International Journal of Production Economics, Elsevier, vol. 75(1-2), pages 7-19, January.

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