LEADER 04056oam 2200673I 450 001 9910459434203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-136-95995-5 010 $a1-282-78178-2 010 $a9786612781780 010 $a0-203-85009-2 024 7 $a10.4324/9780203850091 035 $a(CKB)2670000000045888 035 $a(EBL)557309 035 $a(OCoLC)664551630 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000414599 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11913229 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000414599 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10409724 035 $a(PQKB)10692993 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC557309 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL557309 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10416670 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL278178 035 $a(OCoLC)671754686 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000045888 100 $a20180706d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aComputational analysis of firms' organization and strategic behaviour /$fedited by Edoardo Mollona 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2010. 215 $a1 online resource (349 p.) 225 1 $aRoutledge research in organizational behaviour and strategy ;$v6 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-138-87947-9 311 $a0-415-47602-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBook 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 Theory 327 $a5 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 Firms 327 $a11 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; Index 330 $aThis book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer simulation provide an environment to develop, test and articulate theoretical propositions. In general, computer simulation provides an experimental environment where researchers are able to play with symbolic representations of phenomena by modifying the model's structure and activating or deactivating model's parameters. This environment allows to both generating hypotheses to ex post explain observed phenomena or to 410 0$aRoutledge research in organizational behaviour and strategy ;$v6. 606 $aStrategic planning$xComputer simulation 606 $aSocial sciences$xComputer simulation 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aStrategic planning$xComputer simulation. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xComputer simulation. 676 $a302.3/50113 701 $aMollona$b Edoardo$f1967-$0147371 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910459434203321 996 $aComputational analysis of firms' organization and strategic behaviour$91942680 997 $aUNINA