Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior: New Frontiers of Social Science Research (Paperback, Softcover Repri)

Preface.- Chapter 1 Exploring the New Frontier.- Part I Perspectives.- Ch 2 Emergent Organizations .- Ch 3 Cognition beyond the body: Looking differently at ABM.- Part II Modeling Organizational Behavior.- Ch 4 The Effects of Disorganization on Goals and Problem Solving.- Ch 5 Constructing Agent-Based Models of Organizational Routines.- Ch 6 CoopNet: A Social, P2P-like Simulation Model to Explore Knowledge-Based Production Processes.- Ch 7 Conceptualizing and Modeling Multi-Level Organizational Co-Evolution.- Ch 8 Exploring Aspects of Coordination by Mutual Adjustment in Fluid Teams.- Ch 9 Boundary Conditions for the Emergence of "Docility".- Part III Philosophical and Methodological Perspectives on ABM.- Ch 10 Intervening via Chance-Seeking.- Ch 11 Exploring Social and Asocial Agency in Agent-Based Systems.- Ch 12 Towards nonlocal field-like social interactions.- Ch 13 Analytical approaches to Agent-Based Models.- Part IV Modeling Organized Crime and Other Macro-Aspects of Organizational Behavior.- Ch 14 Modeling Social Agency Using Diachronic Cognition: Learning from the Mafia.- Ch 15 Water Controversies between Conflict and Cooperation.- Ch 16 Open Innovation Networks and the Role of Intermediaries.