This paper provides a coherent framework within which to understand the economics of data processing in enterprises. The computational processes in the firm are described with the help of a dynamic parallel processing model of associative computation. The basic model is extended to include the...

This paper examines the effects of changes in information - processing technology on the efficient organizational forms of data - processing in decision - making systems. Data-processing is modelled in the framework of the dynamic parallel processing model of associative computation with an...