This paper investigates the performance of three forms of organizations: hierarchies, oiligarchies and committees. Sah and Stiglitz (1986) show that hierarchies and polyarchies differ in their information processing abilities in terns of type-1 and type-1 I errors, with 'fallible' agents making...

This collection of Eisenberg's most significant essays provides a coherent example of a set of important ideas in organisational communication, pertaining in particular to the importance of language and interpretation in the social construction of organisational life