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Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics (1.1.1)

The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice (GCM) is a fundamental model of organizational decision-making originally propossed by J.D. Cohen, J.G. March and J.P. Olsen in 1972. In their model, decisions are made out of random meetings of decision-makers, opportunities, solutions and problems within an organization.
With this model, these very same agents are supposed to meet in society at large where they make decisions according to GCM rules. Furthermore, under certain additional conditions decision-makers, opportunities, solutions and problems form stable organizations. In this artificial ecology organizations are born, grow and eventually vanish with time.

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Release Notes

This code has been used to generate the results expounded in:
Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2020) Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics. Working Paper.

Associated Publications

Fioretti G. (2012) Garbage Can Ecologies: An agent-based exploration. In A. Lomi and J. Richard Harrison (eds.), The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking forward at fourty, Ch. VI, pp. 141-164. Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2020) Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics. Working Paper.

Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics 1.1.1

Submitted by Guido Fioretti Published Apr 26, 2020 Last modified Dec 05, 2024
decision processes collective decision making decision model computational organization theory Organizational behavior decision making collective self-organization organization science

The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice (GCM) is a fundamental model of organizational decision-making originally propossed by J.D. Cohen, J.G. March and J.P. Olsen in 1972. In their model, decisions are made out of random meetings of decision-makers, opportunities, solutions and problems within an organization.
With this model, these very same agents are supposed to meet in society at large where they make decisions according to GCM rules. Furthermore, under certain additional conditions decision-makers, opportunities, solutions and problems form stable organizations. In this artificial ecology organizations are born, grow and eventually vanish with time.

Release Notes

This code has been used to generate the results expounded in:
Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2020) Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics. Working Paper.

Cite this Model

Guido Fioretti (2020, April 26). “Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics” (Version 1.1.1). CoMSES Computational Model Library. Retrieved from: https://doi.org/10.25937/30yh-gp96

Replication of a previously described model

This model replicates the main results obtained by Cohen, March and Olsen. Furthermore, it reproduces the empirical distinction between Liability of Newness and Liability of Adolescence

Associated Publication(s)

Fioretti G. (2012) Garbage Can Ecologies: An agent-based exploration. In A. Lomi and J. Richard Harrison (eds.), The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: Looking forward at fourty, Ch. VI, pp. 141-164. Bingley, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2020) Emergence of Organizations out of Garbage Can Dynamics. Working Paper.

References

Cohen M.D.,March J.G. and Olsen J.P. (1972) A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Administrative Science Quarterly, 17 (1): 1-25.

Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2008a) An Agent-Based Representation of the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 11 (1).

Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2008b) The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: An agent-based reconstruction. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 16 (2): 192-217.

Fioretti G. and Lomi A. (2010) Passing the Buck in the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 16 (2): 113-143.

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10.25937/30yh-gp96

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1.1.1
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Publish Date
Sunday, April 26, 2020
Last Updated
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