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" Uncertainty is defined as the difference between the amount of information required to perform the task and the amount of information already possessed by the organization (1973, p. "
Info-Gap Decision Theory: Decisions Under Severe Uncertainty - Page 16
by Yakov Ben-Haim - 2006 - 384 pages
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Integrating Design and Manufacturing for Competitive Advantage

Gerald I. Susman - Business & Economics - 1992 - 311 pages
...problems in the context of new product development face two obstacles. The first is uncertainty, which is "the difference between the amount of information...task and the amount of information already possessed" (Galbraith, 1977). The second is equivocality, "the existence of multiple and conflicting interpretations...
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Organizational Change and Redesign: Ideas and Insights for Improving Performance

George P. Huber (ed), William H. Glick - Organization - 1993 - 470 pages
...defined changes in misfit can be identified. For example, Galbraith (1977: 36-37) defines uncertainty as "the difference between the amount of information...information already possessed by the organization " (italics in original). "Information required" is the value of the variable specified by the designer;...
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Information Systems and Technology in the International Office of the Future ...

Bernard Glasson, Doug Vogel, Pieter W. Bots, J. Nunamaker - Business & Economics - 1996 - 408 pages
...uncertainty and equivocality (El-Shinnawy and Markus 1992). Uncertainty refers to "the difference between amount of information required to perform the task...information already possessed by the organization". Equivocality refers to ambiguity and multiple, conflicting interpretations of situations (Weick 1979)....
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Perspectives of Information Systems

Vesa Savolainen - Business & Economics - 1999 - 300 pages
...the hierarchy is overloaded. From the organizational viewpoint Galbraith (1973) defines uncertainty as the difference between the amount of information...information already possessed by the organization. An organization can reduce the number of exceptions that occur by simply reducing the required level...
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Analysis of Manufacturing Enterprises: An Approach to Leveraging Value ...

N. Viswanadham - Business & Economics - 1999 - 320 pages
...between interdependent parties and between the superior and subordinate. As the task uncertainty — the difference between the amount of information required...to perform the task and the amount of information possessed by the person performing the task-increases, fewer situations can be programmed in advance,...
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The Flexible Firm: Capability Management in Network Organizations

Julian Birkinshaw, Peter Hagström - Business & Economics - 2000 - 250 pages
...conceptual approach that has come to be called information-processing theory. Galbraith defined uncertainty as 'the difference between the amount of information...information already possessed by the organization'. Thus, he argued that the information-processing demands on the organization (ie the uncertainty it...
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Defence Management in Uncertain Times

Teri McConville, Richard Holmes - History - 2003 - 254 pages
...Information processing is key to the problem as information defines uncertainty, 'Uncertainty is defined as the difference between the amount of information...the amount of information already possessed by the organisation.'1" We seem then to be presented with a simple requirement, identify the information gap,...
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Industrial And Organisational Psychology (2 Vols.), Volume 2

H.L. Kaila - Personnel management - 2006 - 392 pages
...or the economy) and internal, work-realted task uncertainty. Jay Galbraith defines task uncertainty as "the difference between the amount of information...information already possessed by the organization." 2. The organization must have mechanisms and be structured such that it can diagnose and cope with...
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Measuring Innovation in OECD and Non-OECD Countries: Selected Seminar Papers

William Blankley - Technological innovations - 2006 - 354 pages
...implementation. Uncertainty is reflected in the absence of answers to explicit questions and may be defined as 'the difference between the amount of information...the amount of information already possessed by the organisation' (Galbraith 1977). Again, these two enablers were of equal importance for radical and...
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Wissenstransfer bei hoher Produkt- und Prozesskomplexität: Pilotierung ...

Jens Kohler - Business & Economics - 2008 - 292 pages
...Situationen (equivocality) beitragen. Diese Begriffe werden wie folgt verwendet: „Uncertainty is defined as the difference between the amount of 'Information...information already possessed by the organization. 'S38 "Equivocality means ambiguity, the existing of multiple and conflicting interpretations about...
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