Abstract:This Chapter concerns formal models of organizations that regularly acquire information about a changing environment in order to find actions which are appropriate to the new environment. Some or all members of the organization are specialists. Each of them privately learns something about a particular aspect of the new environment. The organization operates a mechanism, which assembles relevant pieces of the specialists' private observations and uses the assembled information to obtain the desired new action.… Show more
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