Team Performance Management: Volume 23 Issue 1/2

Agent-based models of bounded rationality

Davide Secchi

The purpose of this editorial is to introduce the Special Issue “Agent-Based Models of Bounded Rationality” and to provide an overview of its rationale and main objectives.

Agent-based mechanism design – investigating bounded rationality concepts in a budgeting context

Iris Lorscheid, Matthias Meyer

This study aims to demonstrate how agent-based simulation (ABS) may provide a computational testbed for mechanism design using concepts of bounded rationality (BR). ABS can be…

Equity-constrained dispatching models for emergency medical services

Sreekanth V.K., Ram Babu Roy

The purpose of this paper is to apply agent-based modeling and simulation concepts in evaluating different approaches to solve ambulance-dispatching decision problems under…

Team problem solving and motivation under disorganization – an agent-based modeling approach

Dinuka Herath, Joyce Costello, Fabian Homberg

This paper aims at simulating on how “disorganization” affects team problem solving. The prime objective is to determine how team problem solving varies between an organized and…

Inquisitiveness: distributing rational thinking

Emanuele Bardone, Davide Secchi

This study aims at redefining bounded rationality on the basis of a more socialized view of the individual. In doing so, it introduces “inquisitiveness” as a key disposition that…

A model of innovation and knowledge development among boundedly rational rival firms

Cristina Boari, Guido Fioretti, Vincenza Odorici

The purpose of this paper is to explore the significance of bounded rationality for innovation research. It does so by expounding the structure and the assumptions of an…

Escape from the factory of the robot monsters: agents of change

Dale Richards

The increasing use of robotics within modern factories and workplaces not only sees us becoming more dependent on this technology but it also introduces innovative ways by which…