Although MAS researchers have recently an increased interest in social agency, the explicit representation and exploitation of organizational aspects has not gained much attention. This paper, based on the organizational model proposed in [ ], investigates the organizational programming paradigm. The approach proposed in this paper, in contrast to other approaches, emphasizes on group thinking ...

While several areas of organizational research have benefited from the use of games to study interaction between individuals, one area that has not done so is the study of organizational coordination. This is in spite of the large game-theoretic literature on coordination games and solutions to coordination problems. This paper brings the two approaches together, showing how simple games can be...

The authors investigated the relationship between organizational justice and organizational retaliation behavior—adverse reactions to perceived unfairness by disgruntled employees toward their employer—in a sample of 240 manufacturing employees. Distributive, procedural, and interactional justice interacted to predict organizational retaliation behavior. A relation between distributive justice ...

Virtual organizations are complex, dynamic and unpredictable environments where independent organizations work together for some collective goals. To ensure that the goals are achieved in a predicable way, regulating structures should be represented explicitly and independently from the acting components at different abstraction levels, which on the one hand enables stakeholders with different ...

Business contracts play a central role in governing commercial interactions between organizations. It is increasingly recognized that business contract conditions need to be closely linked to internal and external business processes, both to reduce the risk of contract violations and to ensure compliance with legislative regimes. Recent research has proposed contract languages allowing the spec...

This article discusses active qualitative evaluation and modern sociotechnical design as parts of an approach for the evaluation of organizational change. 'Intervention in interactions' is the most important similarity between these parts when considering the evaluation of organizational change.The two parts are discussed in terms of their theoretical core elements, practical consequences for r...

Theoretical developments in the analysis of organizations have recently turned to an “organizational becoming” perspective, which sees the social world as enacted in the micro-context of communicative interactions among individuals through which meaning is negotiated. According to this view, organizational change is endemic, natural and ongoing; it occurs in every-day interactions as actors eng...

Despite the increased salience of metaphor in organization theory, current perspectives are flawed and misguided in assuming that metaphor can be explained with the so-called comparison model. I therefore outline an alternative model of metaphor understanding—the domains-interaction model—which suggests that metaphor involves the conjunction of whole semantic domains in which a correspondence b...