Cognition,Redundancy, And Learning In Organizations |
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Authors: | Richard Langlois Pierre Garrouste |
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Institution: | 1. Department of Economics , The University of Connecticut , U63 Storrs, CT, 06269–1063, USA E-mail: Langlois@UConnVM.UConn.edu;2. Department of Economics , Université Lumière/Lyon II and ECT MRASH , 14, avenue Berthelot, Lyon cedex 07, 69363, France E-mail: Garrouste@ect.ec-lyon.fr14, avenue Berthelot |
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Abstract: | What exactly does it mean for something to be an ‘organization’? How do we know when something is organized? What exactly is organizational learning? We attempt to attack some of these questions by turning to cybernetics and the mathematical theory of information In the work of Atlan and von Foerster we find provocative attempts to describe the processes of self-organization in terms of such variables as redundancy and information content. Using the running example of a monastery library we attempt to explicate these approaches and connect them to economic concerns. |
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Keywords: | organization information theory learning models J E L classifications: D83 D20 L23 |
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