An Agent-based Simulation Study for Exploring Organizational Adaptation

SIMULATION

Volumn 85, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 397-413

  Jiang, Wu ^a   Bin, Hu ^a   yu, Zhang ^b   Spence, Catherine ^c   Hall, Steven B ^d   Carley, Kathleen ^e  

^a HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b TRINITY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

^d LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

agility; organizational adaptation; resilience; robustness; simulation; survivability

Indexed keywords

AGILITY; ORGANIZATIONAL ADAPTATION; RESILIENCE; ROBUSTNESS; SIMULATION; SURVIVABILITY;

DYNAMICS;

SIMULATORS;

EID: 66149163120     PISSN: 00375497     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0037549709105267     Document Type: Article

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