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Design problems can be considered as typical hierarchical planning problems. Apart from formal constructional hierarchies they can belong to any of the hierarchy types defined in Chapter 2 (Fig. 2.3). That is, design problems can involve one or more decision makers, the levels can cooperate as a team, or, at the other extreme, they can behave antagonistically as in a principal agent situation.
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Schneeweiss, C. (1999). Organizational Design and Flexibility. In: Hierarchies in Distributed Decision Making. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-03830-7_7
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