Simulation modeling in organizational and management research
介绍仿真建模在管理研究中的应用,解释其优势与挑战,帮助学者理解这一方法如何推动复杂行为与系统的理论发展。
Simulation modeling provides a powerful methodology for advancing theory and research on complex behaviors and systems, yet it has been embraced more slowly in management than in some associated social science disciplines. We suspect that part of the reason is that simulation methods are not well understood. We therefore aim to promote understanding of simulation methodology and to develop an appreciation of its potential contributions to management theory by describing the nature of simulations, its attractions, and its special problems, as well as some uses of computational modeling in management research.