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March 18, 2026The Accounting Review

Toward a Multi-Level, Multi-Goal Information System.

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JFJohn E. FieldUniversity of Auckland

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Implication

The article explores an innovative information system for firms to enhance management efficiency and adaptability.

Key Points

  • The research aims to develop a comprehensive information system that resembles biological systems to improve firm performance.
  • Reviewed concepts from industrial operations research over twenty years.
  • Analyzed the relationship between firms and biological systems.
  • Investigated productivity determinants in British firms.
  • Identified that the firm's potential for growth is linked to management's ability to learn from its environment.
  • Emphasized that firms must coordinate activities similarly to how living organisms function.

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John E. Field (1969) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ba424e4e9516ffd37a2771https://doi.org/10.2308/tar-4489462
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