Information structures in decisionmaking organizations

Analytical models of teams of well-trained human decisionmakers executing well-defined information-processing and decisionmaking tasks require the precise specifications of the information structures of the organization and the associated protocols. In larger organizations, especially decentralized ones, the assumption of a high degree of synchronization is not realistic. Thus, it has become necessary to develop a methodology for characterizing and analyzing asynchronous processing of subtasks within the organization. Data flow concepts from computer science are introduced to describe in a precise analytical manner the protocols of the interactions between the organization members.