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1 Simulating Organizational Change : Moving and Shaking "
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
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| Author | Tempus, Fugit Irreparabile |
| Copyright Year | 2005 |
| Abstract | We still know very little about the long-term learning patterns of organizations. Analysis tends to favor the more immediate factors over more distant ones. We focus on synchronic portrayals of the organization while ignoring diachronic representations. The model presented here analyzes changes in the state of the organization over time. It describes and investigates the totality of forces and actions that generate the organization's dynamic. It offers a speeded-up aging of the organization intended to bring out the counter-intuitive effects of decisions over time. Moreover, it endeavors to identify the “cost drivers” that contribute to increasing or shrinking the firm's profits. The organization can be represented by a time-based mathematics (differential equations) that simulates a "chrono-organization ". The model was built by using the concepts of systems dynamics. It was developed on a computer, using Vensim DSS32 software (Ventana Systems, Inc.). The meta-model that was developed is used to derive an application model whose purpose is to reproduce the long-term life of an organization. The simulation speeds up the aging of the organization, enabling the user 1) to show the counter-intuitive effects of decisions over the long term versus the short term, and 2) to highlight the cost drivers that generate hidden costs. Through its decisions, the firm gives rise to its own factors of development and decline: its own actions eventually change both the organization's health and its properties. The model's purpose is to provide a better understanding of this evolution and of the dynamics of the changing state of the organization's components over time. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.dinamica-de-sistemas.com/paper/31_13.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
