Computational Organizational Cognition
A study on thinking and action in organizations
Published on 13. August 2021
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-83867-512-7 (ISBN)
Description
In Computational Organizational Cognition, Davide Secchi presents an innovative definition of organizational cognition using a research tradition that builds on the Embodied/Distributed/Extended Cognition (EDEC) perspectives and it is developed through agent-based computational simulation modelling.
After an overview of EDEC perspectives, Computational Organizational Cognition presents four simulations which allow readers to clearly assess the advantages of agent-based computational organizational cognition (AOC) for both theory and practice. The book attempts to demonstrate how AOC is a useful if not essential instrument to explore, understand and analyze the inner complexities of organizational cognition. AOC is a powerful tool and an approach for organizational research enquiry at the service of both organizational scholars and cognitive scientists.
After an overview of EDEC perspectives, Computational Organizational Cognition presents four simulations which allow readers to clearly assess the advantages of agent-based computational organizational cognition (AOC) for both theory and practice. The book attempts to demonstrate how AOC is a useful if not essential instrument to explore, understand and analyze the inner complexities of organizational cognition. AOC is a powerful tool and an approach for organizational research enquiry at the service of both organizational scholars and cognitive scientists.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
538 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-83867-512-7 (9781838675127)
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08/2021
1st Edition
Emerald Publishing Limited
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Person
Davide Secchi is Associate Professor of Organisational Cognition and Director of the Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark in Slagelse. He is the author of Extendable Rationality (2011) and co-editor of Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior (with M. Neumann, 2016).
Content
Chapter 1. IntroductionPART I. IN SEARCH FOR A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION
Chapter 2. Managerial and organizational cognition: what's not to like?
Chapter 3. Cognition outside the skull
Chapter 4. Extensions and criticism
Chapter 5. The social distribution of cognition
PART II. AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION
Chapter 6. Agent-based modeling and cognition
Chapter 7. An unusual diffusion model
Chapter 8. The operational boundaries of docility
Chapter 9. Relaxing the assumptions
Chapter 10. Wild inquisitiveness: the plastic organization
PART III. THE LARGER PICTURE
Chapter 11. Understanding organizational cognition
Chapter 12. A new paradigm
Chapter 13. Final remarks: pushing the boundaries
Chapter 2. Managerial and organizational cognition: what's not to like?
Chapter 3. Cognition outside the skull
Chapter 4. Extensions and criticism
Chapter 5. The social distribution of cognition
PART II. AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION
Chapter 6. Agent-based modeling and cognition
Chapter 7. An unusual diffusion model
Chapter 8. The operational boundaries of docility
Chapter 9. Relaxing the assumptions
Chapter 10. Wild inquisitiveness: the plastic organization
PART III. THE LARGER PICTURE
Chapter 11. Understanding organizational cognition
Chapter 12. A new paradigm
Chapter 13. Final remarks: pushing the boundaries