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Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the “Complexity Effect” with Agent-Based Simulations

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Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems (RASTA 2002)

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Industrial districts (IDs) are complex inter-organizational systems based on an evolutionary network of interactions among heterogeneous, localized, functionally integrated and complementary firms. With an agent-based prototype, we explore how cognitive processes and social reflexivity dynamics of ID firms affect technological adaptation and economic performance of ID as a whole. Rather than observing IDs just by the point of view of the so-called bottom-up emerging properties, we try to study how firms develop over time “districtualized” behavioral attitudes, through cognitive capabilities of typifying and contextualizing in a social sense their technological, organizational and economic action. The question is: do cognitive processes, like those mentioned, have a great impact on technological learning and economic performance of firms over time?

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  1. Department of Economics, University of Pavia, San Felice 5, 27100, Pavia, Italy

    Riccardo Boero

  2. Department of Social Sciences, University of Brescia, San Faustino 74/b, 25122, Brescia, Italy

    Marco Castellani & Flaminio Squazzoni

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Boero, R., Castellani, M., Squazzoni, F. (2004). Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms. Going Beyond the “Complexity Effect” with Agent-Based Simulations. In: Lindemann, G., Moldt, D., Paolucci, M. (eds) Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems. RASTA 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2934. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-25867-4_4

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