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Garbage Can Ecologies: An Agent-Based Exploration

The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty

ISBN: 978-1-78052-712-3, eISBN: 978-1-78052-713-0

Publication date: 26 October 2012

Abstract

This chapter reconstructs the garbage can model (GCM) of organizational choice as an agent-based model. Subsequently, it modifies the original model by establishing behavioral rules that regulate processes of organizational founding, growth, and disbanding in an artificial garbage can ecology. This population-level GCM reproduces some of the core features of the original GCM. Furthermore, it produces aggregate regularities that are broadly consistent with the historical trajectories followed by actual organizational populations.

Citation

Fioretti, G. (2012), "Garbage Can Ecologies: An Agent-Based Exploration", Lomi, A. and Harrison, J.R. (Ed.) The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking Forward at Forty (Research in the Sociology of Organizations, Vol. 36), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 141-164. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0733-558X(2012)0000036009

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