• DocumentCode
    3322901
  • Title

    Analytic demonstration on the irrationality of negative entropy principle

  • Author

    Xiang Xie ; Xue-yun Zang ; Zhong-Liang Guan

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Econ. & Manage., Beijing Jiaotong Univ., Beijing
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    10-12 Sept. 2008
  • Firstpage
    109
  • Lastpage
    115
  • Abstract
    The enterprise is an open system, so according to the second law of thermodynamics and the dissipative structure theory, the enterprise has to require an influx of negative entropy from external sources by exchanging substances, energy and information with its external environment in order to become a system with low entropy. Negative entropy principle indicates information is negative entropy what suggests the enterprise should obtain more and more information from outside. But the fact does not support this principle, for example, information overburden has been a serious issue for the enterprise to deal with. This paper demonstrates the irrationality of negative entropy principle base on the basic definition of information entropy, and proves the possibility of information is positive entropy. The purpose of this paper is to make the enterprise pay much more attention to the management of information resources.
  • Keywords
    information management; dissipative structure theory; external environment; information entropy; information overburden; information resources management; negative entropy principle; Conference management; Energy management; Engineering management; Environmental management; Information analysis; Information entropy; Open systems; Power generation economics; Thermal management; Thermodynamics; entropy change; information; information entropy; negative entropy; positive entropy;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Management Science and Engineering, 2008. ICMSE 2008. 15th Annual Conference Proceedings., International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Long Beach, CA
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2387-3
  • Electronic_ISBN
    978-1-4244-2388-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICMSE.2008.4668902
  • Filename
    4668902