23045

Video URL

https://old.simons.berkeley.edu/talks/modular-organization

Organizing Modular Production

(2022). Organizing Modular Production. The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing. https://old.simons.berkeley.edu/talks/modular-organization

Organizing Modular Production. The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, Dec. 01, 2022, https://old.simons.berkeley.edu/talks/modular-organization 

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            language = {en},
            title = {Organizing Modular Production},
            publisher = {The Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing},
            year = {2022},
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Bryony Reich (Northwestern)
Talk number23045
Source RepositorySimons Institute
Subject

Abstract

We characterize the optimal communication network in a firm with a modular production function, which we model as a network of decisions with a non-overlapping community structure. Optimal communication is characterized by two hierarchies that determine whom each agent receives information from and sends information to. Receiver rank depends only on module cohesion while sender rank also depends on decision-specific values of adaptation. When the hierarchies are the reverse of each other, optimal communication is bottom up in aggregate, and when they are the same, it has a core-periphery structure, in which the core contains the most cohesive modules.