Organizational Languages

Organizational Languages

The paper is concerned with communication within a team of players trying to coordinate in response to information dispersed among them. The problem is nontrivial because they cannot communicate all information instantaneously, but have to send longer or shorter sequences of messages, using coarse codes. We focus on the design of these codes and show that members may gain compatibility advantag...

1 Organizational Languages

The paper is concerned with communication within a team of players trying to react to information dispersed among them. The problem is nontrivial because they cannot communicate all information, but have to use coarse codes. The paper argues that members gain compatibility advantages by using identical codes, but that this may limit the ability of large teams to adapt to heterogeneous environme...

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MIT Sloan School of Management Working Paper 4278 - 03 January 2003 Organizational Languages

The paper is concerned with communication within a team of players trying to coordinate in response to information dispersed among them. The problem is nontrivial because they cannot communicate all information instantaneously, but have to send longer or shorter sequences of messages, using coarse codes. We focus on the design of these codes and show that members may gain compatibility advantag...