Archive of posts with category 'research'

Conformity: Resolving the Trade-Off Between Performance and Synchrony in Multi-Unit Organizations

Multi-unit organizations are a form of organizations where the geographically dispersed units provide similar products or services in different markets. Deciding on an appropriate level of centralization in such organizations...

Effects of modularity on the organizational performance in presence of conformity

The paper explores the intersection between modularity and conformity in organizational contexts using agent-based model of organizations as complex systems. The results demonstrate that a concentration of interdependent tasks within...

Controlling Replication via the Belief System in Multi-unit Organizations

Multi-unit organizations such as retail chains are interested in the diffusion of best practices throughout all divisions. However, the strict guidelines or incentive schemes may not always be effective in...

Interactions Between Social Norms and Incentive Mechanisms in Organizations

We focus on how individual behavior that complies with social norms interferes with performance-based incentive mechanisms in organizations with multiple distributed decision-making agents. We model social norms to emerge from...

A Comparative Analysis of Different Life-Cycle Investment Strategies for Turkey

In this paper, we perform a welfare comparison of different life-cycle investment strategies for the pension funds using Monte Carlo simulations in an heterogeneous agent framework for Turkey. We calibrate...

On the Effect of Social Norms on Performance in Teams with Distributed Decision Makers

Social norms are rules and standards of expected behavior that emerge in societies as a result of information exchange between agents. This paper studies the effects of emergent social norms...