An organization needs specific capabilities to develop competencies, but at the same time remaining open for expanded search. These paradoxical requirements imply that there are balances to be struck if capabilities and resources are to remain vital. How do firms then maintain, yet renew or replace their distinctive competencies? Notwithstanding the managerial relevance of this provocative ques...

We examine how a firm’s formal organizational structure affects its ability to cope with interdependent decisions. An agent-based simulation, in which firms struggle to discover good sets of decisions, allows us to examine four coordinating mechanisms that have rarely been analyzed jointly: the grouping of related decisions under a single subordinate, a vertical hierarchy that reviews proposals...

Correspondence: [email protected] Universitetsvägen 10B 106 91, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Evolutionary theories of organizational change aim at finding processes that introduce structural variations in organizational variables and the conditions under which they can survive and be reproduced. However, the theory is limited by the lack of knowledge on interactions between organizat...

Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Sociology, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden Abstract Evolutionary theories of organizational change aim at finding processes that introduce structural variations in organizational variables and the conditions under which they can survive and be reproduced. However, the theory is limited by the lack of knowledge on interactions ...

• • The order of authorship on this paper is random and contributions were equal. We would like to thank Ron Burt, Jim March and Mike Tushman for many helpful suggestions. Olav Sorenson provided particularly extensive comments on this paper. We would like to acknowledge the financial support of the University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business and a grant from the Kauffman Center for Entre...

In the United States, tobacco control activities are organized primarily in state tobacco control programs. These programs are comprised of public and private agencies working together to reduce tobacco use. The human, financial, and informational resources that go into state tobacco control programs are documented, and the outcomes of these programs have been studied in terms of health and hea...

The increased complexity and dynamism of present and future Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) enforce the need for considering both of their static (design-time) and the dynamic (run-time) aspects. A type of balance between the two aspects can definitely give better results related to system stability and adaptivity. MAS organization is the research area that is concerned with these issues and it is cu...