Organization Design: The Epistemic Interdependence Perspective

By Phanish Puranam, Marlo Raveendran, Thorbjørn Knudsen. 2010

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Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Sociology and Political Science, Strategy and Management

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Organizational Structure, Information Processing, and Decision-Making: A Retrospective and Road Map for Research (2020, background): “Instead of exhibiting vertical integration or sequential interdependence, they reflect systems of “epistemic” interdependence (Puranam et al., 2012), unprecedented availability of data (Van Knippenberg et al., 2015), and the hyperspecialization of agents (Malone, Laubacher, & Johns, 2011).”
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions (2016, background): “Puranam et al. (2012) advanced the theory of organization design by pointing out that there are different types of interdependence between technical components of a system.”
The Role of Interdependence in the Micro-Foundations of Organization Design: Task, Goal, and Knowledge Interdependence (2020, background): “Defined by Puranam et al. (2012) in their study of task interdependence and coordination mechanisms, two agents are linked by epistemic interdependence when agent A’s optimal action depends on a prediction of agent B’s behavior and vice versa (see also Camerer, 2003; von Neumann & Morgenstern,…”
A Dynamic Perspective on Diverse Teams: Moving from the Dual-Process Model to a Dynamic Coordination-based Model of Diverse Team Performance (2016, background): “Though incentive alignment aids in achieving coordination, in and of itself, incentive alignment is neither necessary nor sufficient to achieve coordination (Camerer, 2003; Puranam et al., 2012).”
Introduction - Platforms and Infrastructures in the Digital Age (2018, background): “People charged with implementing complex projects or processes must arrive at solutions that account for the technical constraints; that is, they must communicate with one another and cooperate to solve problems where and when they arise (Puranam et al. 2012).”