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Organizations As Information Processing Systems Office of Naval Research Technical Report Series

Information Richness: to Managerial Behavior Approach A New and Organization Design Richard L. Daft and Robert H. Lengel TR-ONR-DL-02

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Information Richness: A New Approach to Managerial Behavior and Or-ganization Design

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College of Business Administration

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Information Processing

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Information Richness Organizational Communication Interpretation of Environment Organizational Coordination

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paper introduces the concept of information richness, and proposes 7 This three models of information processing. The models describe (1) manager information behavior,

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vocality from the environment, and (3) organizational mechanisms for internal coordination. Concepts developed by Weick (1979) and Galbraith (1973) are integrated into two information tasks: equivocality reduction and the processing of a sufficient amount of information. The premise of this paper is that the accomplishment of these information tasks and the ultimate-

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