04022oam 2200661I 450 991082643580332120230207213814.01-136-95995-51-282-78178-297866127817800-203-85009-210.4324/9780203850091 (CKB)2670000000045888(EBL)557309(OCoLC)664551630(SSID)ssj0000414599(PQKBManifestationID)11913229(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414599(PQKBWorkID)10409724(PQKB)10692993(MiAaPQ)EBC557309(Au-PeEL)EBL557309(CaPaEBR)ebr10416670(CaONFJC)MIL278178(OCoLC)671754686(EXLCZ)99267000000004588820180706d2010 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrComputational analysis of firms' organization and strategic behaviour /edited by Edoardo MollonaNew York :Routledge,2010.1 online resource (349 p.)Routledge research in organizational behaviour and strategy ;6Description based upon print version of record.1-138-87947-9 0-415-47602-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures and Boxes; Tables; Preface; Part I Why and How: Using Computer Simulation for Theory Development in Social Sciences; 1 The Use of Computer Simulation in Strategy and Organization Research; 2 Computational Modeling and Social Theory-The Dangers of Numerical Representation; 3 Devices for Theory Development: Why Using Computer Simulation If Mathematical Analysis Is Available?; 4 Mix, Chain and Replicate-Methodologies for Agent-Based Modeling of Social Systems; Part II Computer Simulation for Theory Development in Strategy and Organization Theory5 The Dynamics of Firm Growth and Resource Sharing in Corporate Diversifi cation6 Revisiting Porter's Generic Strategies for Competitive Environments Using System Dynamics; 7 Rivalry and Learning among Clustered and Isolated Firms; 8 Organization and Strategy in Banks; 9 Changing Roles in Organizations: An Agent-Based Approach; 10 Rationality Meets the Tribe: Recent Models of Cultural Group Selection; Part III How to Build Agent-Based Computer Models of Firms11 An Agent-Based Methodological Framework to Simulate Organizations or the Quest for the Enterprise: jES and jESOF, Java Enterprise Simulator and Java Enterprise Simulator Open Foundation12 From Petri Nets to ABM: The Analysis of the Enterprise's Process to Model the Firm; Contributors; IndexThis book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer simulation provide an environment to develop, test and articulate theoretical propositions. In general, computer simulation provides an experimental environment where researchers are able to play with symbolic representations of phenomena by modifying the model's structure and activating or deactivating model's parameters. This environment allows to both generating hypotheses to ex post explain observed phenomena or toRoutledge research in organizational behaviour and strategy ;6.Strategic planningComputer simulationSocial sciencesComputer simulationStrategic planningComputer simulation.Social sciencesComputer simulation.302.3/50113Mollona Edoardo1967-147371MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826435803321Computational analysis of firms' organization and strategic behaviour3927761UNINA