Garbage Can Ecologies: An Agent-Based Exploration
The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty
ISBN: 978-1-78052-712-3, eISBN: 978-1-78052-713-0
Publication date: 26 October 2012
Abstract
This chapter reconstructs the garbage can model (GCM) of organizational choice as an agent-based model. Subsequently, it modifies the original model by establishing behavioral rules that regulate processes of organizational founding, growth, and disbanding in an artificial garbage can ecology. This population-level GCM reproduces some of the core features of the original GCM. Furthermore, it produces aggregate regularities that are broadly consistent with the historical trajectories followed by actual organizational populations.
Citation
Fioretti, G. (2012), "Garbage Can Ecologies: An Agent-Based Exploration", Lomi, A. and Harrison, J.R. (Ed.) The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000036009
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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