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Agent-Based Simulation of Diversity and Organizational Performance

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Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems VII

Part of the book series: Agent-Based Social Systems ((ABSS,volume 10))

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This chapter presents an agent-based simulation (ABS) model to analyze the performance of an organization with heterogeneous members. We use a hierarchical landscape model with organizational and personal landscapes and put the difference of skills and values into difference of personal landscapes. Using the model, we show that an organization of heterogeneous members outperforms an organization of homogeneous members in a changing environment, that a changing environment produces organizational inertia, and that homogeneous members make the inertia robust.

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  1. Kozo Keikaku Engineering Inc., 4-5-3 Chuo, Nakano-ku, Tokyo, 164-0011, Japan

    Satoshi Takahashi

  2. Department of Computational Intelligence and Systems Science, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Science and Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 4259 Nagatsuta-cho, Midori-ku, Yokohama, Kanagawa, 226-8502, Japan

    Satoshi Takahashi, Tomomi Kobayashi, Masaaki Kunigami, Takashi Yamada, Gaku Yamamoto, Atsushi Yoshikawa & Takao Terano

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    Tadahiko Murata

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    Takao Terano

  3. , Department of Industrial and Management, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku, 169-8555, Tokyo, Japan

    Shingo Takahashi

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Takahashi, S. et al. (2013). Agent-Based Simulation of Diversity and Organizational Performance. In: Murata, T., Terano, T., Takahashi, S. (eds) Agent-Based Approaches in Economic and Social Complex Systems VII. Agent-Based Social Systems, vol 10. Springer, Tokyo. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54279-7_3

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