Constructing agent-based models of organizational routines

Publikationstyp
Book part
Publikationsdatum
2016
Sprache
English
Author
Kahl, Cara H. 
Meyer, Matthias 
Institut
Controlling und Simulation W-1 
TORE-URI
http://hdl.handle.net/11420/9331
Start Page
85
End Page
107
Citation
Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior : New Frontiers of Social Science Research / edited by Davide Secchi, Martin Neumann. - 1st ed. 2016. - Cham : Springer, 2016. - Online-Ressource (VIII, 348 p. 50 illus., 21 illus. in color, online resource). ISBN 978-3-319-18153-0 (SpringerLinkBücher). - (Springer eBook CollectionBusiness and Economics). - Seite 85-107
Publisher DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-18153-0_5
Publisher
Springer
Organizational routines represent a form of organizational behavior currently studied in multifarious scientific domains, such as economics, organization science, sociology, and psychology. The diverse perspectives on this phenomenon produce a plethora of models reflecting, for instance, what a routine is and how it emerges from and changes within a socio-technical system. Newcomers to the topic of organizational routines may be easily confused by this substantial scientific diversity, discovering many maps for seemingly the same territory. This chapter
presents descriptors to facilitate the comparison of work on organizational routines, and applies them to a contemporary method employed to investigate the phenomenon: agent-based modeling. This insight is related to technical issues relevant to simulating organizational routines, such as model design, implementation, and validation.
Schlagworte
Routines
Organizational behavior
Agent-based modeling
Complexity
Context
Personification
Map-territory relation
Target
Simulation
Model
Micro-foundations
Operationalization
Sense-making
Construct
Validation
DDC Class
300: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
330: Wirtschaft