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In this paper, the relationship between structure and culture within an organization is explored using an agent-based approach. In order to analyze how the organizational structure influences the emergence of organizational culture, an agent-based model of bounded-rational agents (who dynamically interact adapting their effort) is proposed. We have found that formal organizational configurations are more likely to favor the emergence of culture than informal interactions.
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I would like to thank Prof. Cesáreo Hernández for being my mentor and for having the vision (twenty years ago) to recognize agent-based model as a powerful analytical method to complex context.
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Posada, M., Magdaleno, I. (2017). Emergence, Culture and Organizational Structure. In: Hernández, C. (eds) Advances in Management Engineering. Lecture Notes in Management and Industrial Engineering. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55889-9_12
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