New book on organizational modeling

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John Sterman
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New book on organizational modeling

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Folks, you may be interested in this new book on organizational modeling,
edited by Erik Larsen and Alessandro Lomi.

John Sterman
From: John Sterman <jsterman@MIT.EDU>


Dynamics of Organizations
Computational Modeling and Organizational Theories
edited by Alessandro Lomi and Erik R. Larsen

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.

Alessandro Lomi is Professor of Organizational Theory and Behavior at
the School of Economics, University of Bologna. Erik R. Larsen is Professor
of Management at City University Business School, London.

Contributors
David Barron, Matthew Bothner, Kathleen Carley, Glenn Carroll, Michael T.
Hannan, Richard Harrison, Vanessa Hill, Bernardo A. Huberman, David M.
Krackhardt, Erik R. Larsen, Daniel Levinthal, Christoph H. Loch, Alessandro
Lomi, Michael Macy, Franco Malerba, James March, John Miller, Richard
Nelson, Luigi Orsenigo, Laszlo Pólos, Michael Prietula, Anjali Sastry,
David Strang, Sezer Ülkü, Harrison C. White, Sidney Winter.

6 x 9, 352 pp.
paper ISBN 0-262-62152-5
Distributed for AAAI Press

For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262621525
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