American Studies: Topics and SourcesBloomsbury Academic, 12/10/1976 - 393 من الصفحات This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer simulation provide an environment to develop, test and articulate theoretical propositions. In general, computer simulation provides an experimental environment where researchers are able to play with symbolic representations of phenomena by modifying the model’s structure and activating or deactivating model’s parameters. This environment allows to both generating hypotheses to ex post explain observed phenomena or to ex ante generate distributions of unrealized events thereby envisioning areas for further empirical investigations. Under a methodological perspective, the volume investigates logics and techniques to design a research strategy grounded on computer simulation. In particular, the articles in the book concentrate on two different techniques, and philosophies, to set up a simulation study: System Dynamics, which is grounded on differential equations and feedback theory, and agent-based modeling. The book describes how computer simulation helps to look into research issues typical to strategic management and organizational theory. In this respect, such themes as firms’ diversification strategies, competitive strategy, rivalry and the impact of role dynamics on organizational performances are explored through the lenses of computer simulation models. |
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Past Present and Future | 3 |
A Bibliography of Religious History in Its American Setting | 10 |
Autobiography and American Culture | 22 |
Interpreting NineteenthCentury American Literature | 38 |
A Bibliographical Essay | 50 |
A Bibliographical Essay | 59 |
Source Materials for the History of American Cartography | 81 |
A Bibliographical Essay | 96 |
Recent Trends in the Study of Popular Culture | 171 |
A Neglected Material Culture | 185 |
History Anthropology and the American Indian | 194 |
Communal History in America | 206 |
The Chicago Model | 224 |
Approaching Reality | 238 |
Suggested Sources | 261 |
Locating Major Resource Collections for Research in American | 276 |
American Workers and American Studies | 104 |
Man Nature and the Ecological Perspective | 131 |
The Black Revolution in American Studies | 146 |
Interdisciplinary Directions | 152 |
A Guide for Students | 285 |
Index of Titles | 295 |
General Bibliography and Author Index | 323 |
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