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An alternative to field studies and laboratory experiments, simulations are powerful methods of discovering the implications of a model

Bibliography

Simulation Overviews and Criticisms

• Burton and Obel. 1995. The validity of computational models in organization science: From model realism to purpose of the model. Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory. Volume 1, Number 1 / October, 57-71.
• Zacharias, MacMillan and Van Hemel (eds) 2008. Behavioral Modeling and Simulation. The National Academies Press.
• Epstein J.M. (1999) Agent Based Models and Generative Social Science. Complexity, IV (5)
• Robert Axelrod, "Advancing the Art of Simulation in the Social Sciences," in Rosario Conte, Rainer Hegselmann and Pietro Terna (eds.), Simulating Social Phenomena. (Berlin: Springer, 1997), pp. 21-40.

Applications and Models

• Axelrod, R. (1987). The evolution of strategies in the iterated Prisoner's Dilemma. In Genetic algorithms and simulated annealing, Lawrence Davis (ed.). London: Pitman; Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufman, 32-41.
• CARLEY K. M., M. J. Prietula and L. Zhiang 1998. Design vs. Cognition: The Interaction of Agent Cognition and Organizational Design on Organizational Performance. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 1(3), <http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/1/ 3/4.html>.
• MCKELVEY B. 1997. Quasi-Natural Organisation Science. Organization Science, 8:352-380.
• PRIETULA M. J., K. M. Carley and L. Gasser, editors, 1998. Simulating Organizations, The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA.
• Burton and Obel. [html]
• Richard M. Burton and Borge Obel 1980. A Computer Simulation Test of the M-Form Hypothesis. Administrative Science Quarterly, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Sep., 1980), pp. 457-466
• Axtell, Robert (1996) Aligning simulation models: A case study and results. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory 1(2)
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• Schelling, T. (1974). On the ecology of micromotives. In The corporate society, Robert Morris (ed.). 19-64 (See especially 43-54).
• March, J. G. (1991). Exploration and exploitation in organizational learning, Organizational science, 2, 71-87.

Classics

• Epstein J.M. and Axtell R. (1996) Growing Artificial Societies - Social Science from the Bottom. Cambridge MA, MIT Press.
• Schelling, T. (1978). Micromotives and Macrobehavior. New York: Norton.

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