ion either too intimidating or too costly in the short-run, and, thus, attempt to manage around the information issue, as opposed to managing the information itself. Organizations wherein this approach to information management prevails increasingly are finding themselves losing ground to competitors in the contemporary industrial environment.
Any technical innovation that reduces the costs associated with the use of information must promote the intra organizational exchange of information. Improving the exchange of information, however, does not of necessity lead to optimal outcomes. Such outcomes are dependent upon the conditions peculiar to specific organizations.
Intra-firm networking is increasingly important in the economic lives of firms, because of the capacity of intra-firm networking to regulate complex transactional interdependence as well as cooperative interdependence among elements of an organization. The term "network" is an abstract
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