论文标题
公司层次结构中的信息瓶颈原则
The Information Bottleneck Principle in Corporate Hierarchies
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论文摘要
公司信息处理的层次结构性质是对经济和管理文献中极大兴趣的话题。公司的特征是需要做出复杂的决定，通常会汇总部分和不确定的信息，这大大超过了组成个人的关注能力。但是，这些信号的有效传输仍未完全理解。最近，信息瓶颈原理已成为一种有力的工具，可以通过层次结构中的中间级别理解相关信息的传输。在本文中，我们注意到，信息瓶颈原则可以类似地直接应用于公司层次结构。在这样做的过程中，我们提供了组织理论与深度神经网络（DNN）快速扩展工作的桥梁，包括使用跳过连接作为层次结构组织中信息传播的一种手段。
The hierarchical nature of corporate information processing is a topic of great interest in economic and management literature. Firms are characterised by a need to make complex decisions, often aggregating partial and uncertain information, which greatly exceeds the attention capacity of constituent individuals. However, the efficient transmission of these signals is still not fully understood. Recently, the information bottleneck principle has emerged as a powerful tool for understanding the transmission of relevant information through intermediate levels in a hierarchical structure. In this paper we note that the information bottleneck principle may similarly be applied directly to corporate hierarchies. In doing so we provide a bridge between organisation theory and that of rapidly expanding work in deep neural networks (DNNs), including the use of skip connections as a means of more efficient transmission of information in hierarchical organisations.
