AI 中文总结
研究横向复杂性在组织设计中的作用，通过光谱理论工具确定其对团队规模的影响，即总部未解决的变化扩大团队，集中变化缩小团队，有助于优化组织设计。
AI 中文摘要
本文研究了“横向复杂性”（定义为类似任务所需行动的变化）在组织设计中的作用。连续的工人各自选择行动以适应遵循高斯过程的局部状态。总部可将工人分组为“团队”，这简化了协调组织时面临的注意力问题，但抑制了适应性。光谱理论工具确定了横向复杂性如何影响团队规模：总部未解决的变化会扩大团队，而沿总部通过注意力吸收的维度集中的变化会缩小团队。
英文摘要
I study the role of \emph{horizontal complexity} -- defined as the variation in actions that similar tasks require -- in organization design. A continuum of workers each choose an action to adapt to a local state that follows a Gaussian process across locations. Headquarters can group workers into \emph{teams}, simplifying the attention problem it faces in coordinating across the organization, at the cost of inhibiting adaptation. Tools from spectral theory identify how horizontal complexity affects team size: roughly speaking, variation left unresolved by headquarters expands teams, while variation concentrated along dimensions that headquarters absorbs through attention shrinks them.
