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- Title
Short-Run Planning in a Decentralized Firm.
- Authors
Godfrey, James T.
- Abstract
The article presents a short-run planning model for a decentralized firm, which includes a linear programming model for the allocation of scarce corporate resources. The decentralization philosophy is well known and its essence lies in the desire by large firms to delegate responsibility decision making on a broad basis throughout the organization. A classical decentralization problem occurs in the planning phase of a decentralized organization. It consists of the question of how to obtain an optimal plan for the firm as a whole while allowing each division to do its own planning. An important limitation to the decomposition technique is that only problems of a certain form can be subjected to the technique. The decentralization model presented has the general form required for the application of the decomposition technique. The "market" values are, in mathematical programming terminology, the dual values on scarce corporate resources. This description essentially applies to all applications of the decomposition methodology to the decentralized decision making problem.
- Subjects
DECENTRALIZATION in management; BUSINESS enterprises; LINEAR programming; MATHEMATICAL models; DECISION making; BUSINESS planning
- Publication
Accounting Review, 1971, Vol 46, Issue 2, p286
- ISSN
0001-4826
- Publication type
Article