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Author(s): |
Bing Gong, School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Xian-feng Zhang, School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China
Chuan-min Shuai, School of Economics and Management, China University of Geosciences, Wuhan, China |
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Abstract: |
Line structure is one of the types of project organization in modern project management. It is closely related with project goals, quality requirements for team members and project manager’s preferences. Thus, qualitative methods are often adopted to evaluate the effectiveness of a line-structure organization, with the lack of corresponding quantitative theoretical basis. By introducing the dissipation structure theory and Shannon’s information entropy, this paper has established a new indicator - degree of instauration (D(i), DOI) for project structures to determine the priority levels of project organization structures. That is, the smaller the D(i), the better the project organization.
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