Co-ordination processes: modelling and taxonomy

Article type: Research Article

Authors: Gudas, Saulius

Affiliations: Department of Information Systems, Kaunas University of Technology, Studentų 50, 3028 Kaunas, Lithuania

Abstract: The hierarchy of information units and interactions in managing of Organizational Systems is ruther complicated. Interactions between departments of different levels of hierarchy are named “co-ordination” (Mesarovic, Mako, Takahara, 1970). This paper deals with the coordination as the “vertical” informational interfaces between the units called “elementary management cycles” which compose the structure of managing process. The taxonomy of co-ordination processes presented in this paper is based on the decomposition of information processing at managing in so called the Space of Processes (Gudas, 1991).

Keywords: enterprise management, hierarchy of information units, levels of hierarchy, co-ordination in the Space of Processes

DOI: 10.3233/INF-1993-43-406

Journal: Informatica, vol. 4, no. 3-4, pp. 312-321, 1993