TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lomi,Alessandro
AU  - Larsen,Erik R.
TI  - Dynamics of organizations: computational modeling and organization theories
SN  - 9780262621526
U1  - 302.35 
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Menlo Park
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Organizational behavior - Mathematical models
N1  - Table of Contents:

PART ONE: Rediscovering Problems
	
01.	Modeling Culture in Organizations: Formulation and Extension to Ecological Issues
02.	Structural Change and Learning within Organizations
03.	Dedicated Followers of Success: A Computational Model of Fashionable Innovation
04.	Multi-Dimensional Status Competition and Group Performance
05.	Advice, Trust and Gossip among Artificial Agents

PART TWO: Framing Arguments	

06.	Market Orientation and Monopoly Power
07.	Simulating the Dynamics of Organizational Populations: A Comparison of Three Models of Organizational Entry, Exit and Growth
08.	Viscosity Models and the Diffusion of Controversial Innovations
09.	Failure as a Structural Concept: A Computational Perspective on Age Dependence in Organizational Mortality Rates

PART THREE: Taking Views	

10.	Evolving Information Processing Organizations
11.	Modeling Adaptation on Rugged Landscapes
12.	Product Diversification in a "History-friendly" Model of the Evolution of the Computer Industry
13.	Understanding Dynamic Complexity in Organizational Evolution: A System Dynamics Approach
14.	Nonmonotonicity in Theory Building with Applications to Organizational Mortality
N2  - An organization is more than the sum of its parts, and the individual components that function as a complex social system can be understood only by analyzing their collective behavior. This book shows how state-of-the-art simulation methods, including genetic algorithms, neural networks, and cellular automata, can be brought to bear on central problems of organizational theory related to the emergence, permanence, and dissolution of hierarchical macrostructures. The emphasis is on the application of a new generation of equation- and agent-based computational models that can help students of organizations to reformulate their basic research questions starting from assumptions about how to link—rather than separate—different levels of organizational analysis.


(https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/dynamics-organizations)
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