OrgSwarm - A Particle Swarm Model of Organizational Adaptation

This study extends the particle swarm metaphor to include the domain of organizational adaptation. A simulation model, OrgSwarm, is constructed in order to examine the impact of strategic inertia on the adaptive potential of a population of organizations. The key finding is that a degree of strategic inertia, in the presence of an election mechanism, can assist rather than hamper adaption of the population.

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