Computational Organizational Cognition
A study on thinking and action in organizations
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In Computational Organizational Cognition, Davide Secchi presents an innovative definition of organizational cognition using a research tradition that builds on the Embodied/Distributed/Extended Cognition (EDEC) perspectives and it is developed through agent-based computational simulation modelling.
After an overview of EDEC perspectives, Computational Organizational Cognition presents four simulations which allow readers to clearly assess the advantages of agent-based computational organizational cognition (AOC) for both theory and practice. The book attempts to demonstrate how AOC is a useful if not essential instrument to explore, understand and analyze the inner complexities of organizational cognition. AOC is a powerful tool and an approach for organizational research enquiry at the service of both organizational scholars and cognitive scientists.
Chapter 1. IntroductionPART I. IN SEARCH FOR A THEORY OF ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION Chapter 2. Managerial and organizational cognition: what’s not to like? Chapter 3. Cognition outside the skull Chapter 4. Extensions and criticism Chapter 5. The social distribution of cognition PART II. AGENT-BASED COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATIONAL COGNITION Chapter 6. Agent-based modeling and cognition Chapter 7. An unusual diffusion model Chapter 8. The operational boundaries of docility Chapter 9. Relaxing the assumptions Chapter 10. Wild inquisitiveness: the plastic organization PART III. THE LARGER PICTURE Chapter 11. Understanding organizational cognition Chapter 12. A new paradigm Chapter 13. Final remarks: pushing the boundaries
Davide Secchi is Associate Professor of Organisational Cognition and Director of the Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark in Slagelse. He is the author of Extendable Rationality (2011) and co-editor of Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior (with M. Neumann, 2016).