Simulation modeling in organizational and management research

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Harrison, J. Richard; Lin, Zhiang; Carroll, Glenn R.; Carley, Kathleen M.
• 署名单位: University of Texas System; University of Texas Dallas; Stanford University; Carnegie Mellon University
• 刊物名称: ACADEMY OF MANAGEMENT REVIEW
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0363-7425
• 发表日期: 2007
• 页码: 1229-1245
• 关键词: cultural transmission; random-walks; GARBAGE; DYNAMICS; search

摘要

Simulation modeling provides a powerful methodology for advancing theory and research on complex behaviors and systems, yet it has been embraced more slowly in management than in some associated social science disciplines. We suspect that part of the reason is that simulation methods are not well understood. We therefore aim to promote understanding of simulation methodology and to develop an appreciation of its potential contributions to management theory by describing the nature of simulations, its attractions, and its special problems, as well as some uses of computational modeling in management research.