Computational organizational science and organizational engineering

Abstract The past decade has witnessed the emergence of a new scientific discipline––computational social and organizational science. Within organization science in particular, and social science more generally, scientists and practitioners are turning to computational analysis to address fundamental socio-technical problems that are so complex and dynamic that they cannot be fully addressed by traditional techniques. Consequently, there is an explosion of computational models, computationally generated findings, interest in doing simulation, and a dearth of support for this enterprise. This paper contains discussions of the underlying fundamental perspective, the relation of models to empirical data and characteristics of necessary infrastructure.

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