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Title:

The Influence Of Changing Environment For Path Dependence In Hierarchical Organizations

Authors:

Arne Petermann, Alexander Simon

Published in:

 

(2014).ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014

 

ISBN: 978-0-9564944-8-1

 

28th European Conference on Modelling and Simulation,

Brescia, Italy, May 27th – 30th, 2014

Citation format:

Arne Petermann, Alexander Simon (2014). The Influence Of Changing Environment For Path Dependence In Hierarchical Organizations, ECMS 2014 Proceedings edited by: Flaminio Squazzoni, Fabio Baronio, Claudia Archetti, Marco Castellani  European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2014-0202

DOI:

http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2014-0202

Abstract:

The following paper aims at describing how path dependent hierarchical organizations are affected by a changing environment. The results of the latest research in this field (Petermann et al. 2012) analyzed path dependency of norms and institutions in different kinds of hierarchical organizations and the impact of leadership within this process. The results were produces for stable environments only. Agent based simulation was applied as research method. In order to examine how this process evolves when the organizational environment in changing the model M1 (Petermann et al. 2012) will be enhanced. The goal is to simulate the impact of external influences to the norms emerging within the organization. The research described is not yet completed so this paper characterizes first thoughts and possible simulation approaches to tackle the problem at hand.

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