La investigación sobre los flujos de información en las fábricas: El enfoque de la disciplina administrativa

Abstract

A state of the art of the paradigmatic and pragmatic research on information flows in factories from a Management Science approach are analyzed. Seven studies published in academic journals in the period 1959-2006 were located and analyzed. All the substantive areas in factories produce and use information, mostly the administrative functions. Besides internal information sources, factories use other ones, remarkably customers, suppliers, competitors, and even social networks.