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View article: Interactive reflexivity: a means to addressing methodological challenges in international research in management
Interactive reflexivity: a means to addressing methodological challenges in international research in management Open
Purpose The non-academic impact of management research is increasing in importance, albeit at different rates between European countries. Management research – like the organizations studied – is increasingly international. If non-academic…
View article: Measuring defensive routines: a tool for identifying dysfunctions in public organizations
Measuring defensive routines: a tool for identifying dysfunctions in public organizations Open
Purpose Defensive routines are patterns that describe organizational or individual actions aimed at avoiding embarrassment and threat. They impede organizations from identifying hidden issues and creating new knowledge. Defensive routines …
View article: Disorganization Management: What Is It, How Does It Work, and Why Does It Matter?
Disorganization Management: What Is It, How Does It Work, and Why Does It Matter? Open
“Disorganization” also referred to as “mess,” “deviation,” or “disorder” is a concept that is embedded in the view of organizations as complex human systems. The word denotes organizational phenomena that deviate from organizational schema…
View article: Complexity in Systemic Cognition: Theoretical Explorations with Agent-Based Modeling
Complexity in Systemic Cognition: Theoretical Explorations with Agent-Based Modeling Open
This paper presents a systemic view of human cognition that suggests complexityis an essential feature of such a system. It draws on the embodied, distributed, and extended cognition paradigms to outline the elements and the mechanisms tha…
View article: What about adaptiveness? The case of organisational resilience and cognition
What about adaptiveness? The case of organisational resilience and cognition Open
This paper makes the very simple, perhaps straightforward point that adaptiveness cannot be taken for granted when analysing a complex system. The paradigm of Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) theory makes it clear that a key feature of compl…
View article: Organizational structure and organizational learning: The moderating role of organizational defensive routines
Organizational structure and organizational learning: The moderating role of organizational defensive routines Open
Literature on organizational learning (OL) shows that even firms who self-perceive themselves to have appropriate organizational structures still fail to generate appropriate learning outcomes. In this article, we claim that one of the neg…
View article: A Distributed Framework for the Study of Organizational Cognition in Meetings
A Distributed Framework for the Study of Organizational Cognition in Meetings Open
This paper proposes an analytical framework for the analysis of organizational cognition that borrows from distributed and ecological cognition. In so doing, we take a case study featuring a decision on the topic of agreeing on a set point…
View article: A short history of computational simulation in management
A short history of computational simulation in management Open
This chapter introduces computational simulation in business, management, and organisation research (BMOR). It does so by looking at the first models (especially the "garbage can model") and at the two techniques/approaches more popular in…
View article: Guest editorial: new horizons in organizational cognition
Guest editorial: new horizons in organizational cognition Open
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View article: Computational Organizational Cognition: A Study on Thinking and Action in Organizations
Computational Organizational Cognition: A Study on Thinking and Action in Organizations Open
The traditional approach to the study of cognition in organizations has focused on the individual and it has maintained the locus of cognition in the human brain. Computational Organizational Cognition departs from this view to propose tha…
View article: Model-based governance in a sustainable world
Model-based governance in a sustainable world Open
This Special Issue (hereafter SI), entitled “Model-Based Governance in a Sustainable World”, specifically aims at establishing whether, and under which conditions, computer models and simulations effectively and accurately deal with comple…
View article: Theory Building, Case Dependence, and Researchers’ Bounded Rationality: An Illustration From Studies of Innovation Diffusion
Theory Building, Case Dependence, and Researchers’ Bounded Rationality: An Illustration From Studies of Innovation Diffusion Open
Researchers increasingly take advantage of the comparative case design to build theory, but the degree of case dependence is occasionally discussed and theorized. We suggest that the comparative case study design might be subject to an oft…
View article: Cognition in Organisations: What it Is and how it Works
Cognition in Organisations: What it Is and how it Works Open
Drawing on contemporary work that traces cognition to embodiment, we present a model of cognition in organisations. In so doing, we add a middle ground to previous models: far from opposing macro to micro, we focus on how the meso influenc…
View article: On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment
On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment Open
Purpose This viewpoint article is concerned with an attempt to advance organisational plasticity (OP) modelling concepts by using a novel community modelling framework (PhiloLab) from the social simulation community to drive the process of…
View article: The Public Service Motivated Volunteer: Devoting Time or Effort?
The Public Service Motivated Volunteer: Devoting Time or Effort? Open
Non-profit organizations, corporate volunteer programs, and government workplace schemes are asking volunteers for their time and effort. But, with the changes in how people volunteer, such as episodic, micro, and cyber volunteering, those…
View article: On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment
On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment Open
Purpose: This viewpoint article is concerned with an attempt to advance organisational plasticity (OP) modelling concepts by using a novel community modelling framework (PhiloLab) from the social simulation community to drive the process o…
View article: Parallel society: Myth or reality? A question for policy makers
Parallel society: Myth or reality? A question for policy makers Open
The Danish government has produced a public document to announce that deviations from societal values were tolerated no more. They denounced the presence of “alternative values” areas (called “parallel societies”), located mostly where low…
View article: Triggers and Damages of Organizational Defensive Routines
Triggers and Damages of Organizational Defensive Routines Open
Existing research on organizational defensive routines (ODRs) posits that they have strong and intertwined individual and organizational components. However, the literature has not yet systematically isolated and analyzed factors at both l…
View article: Business Plasticity through Disorganization
Business Plasticity through Disorganization Open
Disorganization occurs in all areas of modern business. This book presents a novel approach to both academics and practitioners on how to break the shackles of rigidity and eliminate our fear of disorganization.
View article: Organisational plasticity: a community modelling experience
Organisational plasticity: a community modelling experience Open
This article is concerned with an attempt to provide a conceptual definition of organisational plasticity together with the means to operationalise it. Broadly speaking, this is the ability to implement or to divest change through a fluid …
View article: Modeling Organizational Cognition: The Case of Impact Factor
Modeling Organizational Cognition: The Case of Impact Factor Open
This article offers an alternative perspective on organizational cognition based on e-cognition whereby appeal to systemic cognition replaces the traditional computational model of the mind that is still extremely popular in organizational…