水平还是垂直？管理注意力与组织结构

中文摘要 AI 辅助

本文分析了在管理注意力有限的情况下，作为通信网络建模的水平与垂直组织结构的相对效率。在该框架中，工人接收关于世界状态的噪声信号，并向会议时间相对更受限的决策者传达报告。每份报告的清晰度内生地取决于会议时长以及工人异质的沟通和处理能力。当工人具有相同的沟通能力时，水平结构总是最优的，因为它允许决策者在不叠加传输噪声的情况下最优地加权信号。相反，当工人具有不对称的沟通能力时，决策者的注意力约束会引发结构转换。在这些约束下，垂直结构变得更为可取，因为决策者可以将信息聚合这一时间密集型任务委托给沟通能力更强的工人，从而在传输噪声的损失与决策者稀缺时间的溢价之间取得平衡。在假设处理能力同质的情况下，我推导出了n工人模型的分析阈值。

英文摘要

This paper analyzes the relative efficiency of horizontal and vertical organizational structures modeled as communication networks under limited managerial attention. In this framework, workers receive noisy signals about the state of the world and communicate reports to a decision-maker whose meeting time relatively more constrained. The clarity of each report depends endogenously on meeting lengths and the workers' heterogeneous communication and processing abilities. When workers possess identical communication abilities, the horizontal structure is always optimal because it allows the decision-maker to weight signals optimally without compounding transmission noise. Conversely, when workers have asymmetric communication abilities, the attention constraint of the decision-maker induces a structural switch. Under these constraints, the vertical structure becomes preferred because the decision-maker can delegate the time-intensive task of information aggregation to the superior communicator, balancing the loss from transmission noise against the premium on the decision-maker's scarce time. Under the assumption of homogeneous processing abilities I derive the analytical threshold for the n-worker model.

发表机构

• New York University Abu Dhabi（纽约大学阿布扎比分校）

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