The papers collected in this book form an international overview of recent research into artificial intelligence (AI) in organization and management theory. AI is rapidly changing the face of both the modern organization and of organizational research. Conversely, modern organizations are increasingly serving as a paradigm for parallel computer hardware and software. Important topics presently emerging are: knowledge-based systems in organizations and for organization theory; co-ordination theory (using human organizations as paradigms for computer architecture and vice versa); connectionism (parallel distributed processes in organizations); logic, scripts and other formal languages for describing and understanding organizational behaviour; heuristic simulation for strategic management and organizational design; and machine learning versus organizational learning.
Introduction: Artificial Intelligence in Organization and Management
Theory (M. Masuch). Analogies Between Human Organizations and Artificial
Intelligence Systems: Two Examples and Some Reflections (T.W. Malone).
Organization Theories as Grammar (H.W.M. Gazendam). Knowledge, Meta-knowledge
and Explanation in Intelligent Organizational Models (R.W. Blanning).
Plural-Soar: A Prolegomenon to Artificial Agents and Organizational Behaviour
(K. Carley et al.). Bureaucracy and Subgovernments - A Simulation Model (J.
Bendor, T.M. Moe). A Classifier Model of the Evolution of Organizational
Structure: The Evolving Legislature (S. Taylor). When Can Two Heads Learn
Better Than One? Results from a Computer Model of Organizational Learning
(M.D. Cohen). Exit, Voice, and Learning: Adaptive Behaviour and Competition
in a Hotelling World (M. Warglien). Modelling Co-ordination in Organizations
(K. Crowston). The Value of Co-operation (B.A. Huberman). Organizational
Consultant: Learning by Doing (H.H. Baligh, R.M. Burton, B. Obel). Animal
Farm: An Intelligent Knowledge-Based Computer System (D.S. Bree et al.).
Common Ground? The Intersection of Artificial Intelligence and Organization
and Management Theory (D.A. Gioia).
