An Evolutionary Game Model of Organizational Routines on Complex Networks

Dehua Gao, Xiuquan Deng, and Bing Bai

Abstract. Organizational routines are collective phenomena with multiple actors involved in. In this paper, we introduce the evolutionary game theory into the study of organizational routines, and build up an evolutionary game model of organizational routines on complex networks. On the bases of this model, we provide a multi-agent based simulation via Swarm package. The results of our research show that: the evolutionary game theory – with the aid of multi-agent simulation as well –can afford us a general framework for formalized quantitative analysis, and provide an absolutely novelty directions for the researches of organizational routines based on mathematical methods.
Keywords: organizational routines; individual habits; small-world network; evolutionary game theory; agent-based simulation

Appear in: The 4th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, June 12-15, 2013, Harbin China. 

10.1007%2F978-3-642-38703-6_64.pdf