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Artifacts play an important role in organizational routines deliberately designed and implemented by management. In this paper, we regarded creating and/or planning artifacts as an effective approach for the formation of the designed routines in practice, and treated the formation process from a game theory-based perspective and put forward a CG-MABS model for coping with this problem. Our simulation results show that game theory can provide us an effective tool for researching this type of organizational routines quantitatively. In addition, multi-agent based simulation offers a useful way of concretely observing the routines’ formation process.
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The work for this work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (under Grant No. 71272122 and 71501113), Beijing Natural Science Foundation (under Grant No. 9142013), Humanities and Social Sciences Research Planning Project of the Education Department of Shandong Province (under Grant No. J12WF04), Doctoral Foundation of Shandong Institute of Business and Technology (Under Grant No. BS201606).
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Gao, D., Deng, X., Xu, Y., Bai, B. (2016). Modeling and Simulation of Organizational Routines Deliberately Designed by Management. In: Zhang, L., Song, X., Wu, Y. (eds) Theory, Methodology, Tools and Applications for Modeling and Simulation of Complex Systems. AsiaSim SCS AutumnSim 2016 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 646. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-2672-0_27
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