ISSN:
0957-6061
Quelle:
Emerald Fulltext Archive Database 1994-2005
Thema:
Maschinenbau
,
Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Notizen:
Discusses the movement away from hierarchical organizationalstructures towards flatter, heterarchical, structures which is reflectedin the growing interest in distributed manufacturing control systems.Traditional hierarchical control systems are limited by the breadth,quantity and timeliness of information needed for their operation.Distributed, heterarchical, control systems overcome these hierarchicallimitations but, concurrently, forfeit advantages of the hierarchyincluding analytically optimal loading patterns and centralized pristinedata tracking. Classifies existing research into four categories anddocuments a progression of heterarchical control approaches to injectsome of the advantages of the traditional hierarchy into newheterarchical frameworks. Concludes that neither hierarchical norheterarchical control structures are ideal in their pure form and,hence, proposes a modified structure, called the quasi-heterarchicalcontrol system, which is a combination of, and a compromise between,pure hierarchy and pure heterarchy.
Materialart:
Digitale Medien
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09576069510099356
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