Title: Dynamics of organizations : computational modeling and organization theories /
Authors: Lomi, Alessandro, 1961-; Larsen, Erik R.
Publisher: AAAI Press ; MIT Press,
Year: 2001
Subjects: Organizational behavior Mathematical models.
Contents: Modeling culture in organizations : formulation and extension to ecological issues / Richard Harrison and Glenn Carroll -- Structural change and learning within organizations / Kathleen Carley and Vanessa Hill -- Dedicated followers of success : a computational model of fashionable innovation / Michael Macy and David Strang -- Multi-dimensional status competition and group performance / Christoph H. Loch, Bernardo A. Huberman and Sezer Ülkü -- Advice, trust and gossip among artificial agents / Michael Prietula -- Market orientation and monopoly power / Matthew Bothner and Harrison C. White -- Simulating the dynamics of organizational populations : a comparison of three models of organizational entry, exit and growth / David Barron -- Viscosity models and the diffusion of controversial innovations / David M. Krackhardt -- Failure as a structural concept : a computational perspective on age dependence in organizational mortality rates / Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen -- Evolving information processing organizations / John Miller -- Modeling adaptation on rugged landscapes / Daniel Levinthal -- Product diversification in a "history-friendly" model of the evolution of the computer industry / Franco Malerba [and others] -- Understanding dynamic complexity in organizational evolution : a system dynamics approach / Anjali Sastry -- Nonmonotonicity in theory building with applications to organizational mortality / Laszlo Pólos and Michael T. Hannan.