Adaptive Organizations

Adaptive Organizations∗

This paper is concerned with the three-way trade-off between coordination, specialization and adaptation, and its implications for organizational design. Every organized activity gives rise to two conßicting requirements: the division of labor into manageable tasks and the coordination of these tasks to ensure harmonious execution. In a stable environment, however, coordination can be trivially...

Adaptive Organizations and Emergent Forms

Adaptive multiversion data broadcast organizations

Broadcasting provides an efficient means for disseminating information in both wired and wireless setting. In this paper, we propose a suite of broadcast organization schemes for multiversion data broadcast, i.e., data broadcast in which more than one value is broadcast per data item. Besides increasing the concurrency of client transactions, multiversion broadcast provides clients with the pos...

Simulating Structural Change in Adaptive Organizations

This paper presents an agent-based model of an organization. The model is made of a social network—composed of the different organization workers—and a knowledge network. Workers are assigned tasks, for which they have to use information in the knowledge network. We have modeled the quality of the information by assigning each information item a probability of being wrong. Agents can interact w...

Dynamicity and Performance in Adaptive Organizations

In this dissertation, I focus on the conceptualization and empirical investigation of organizational adaptation. Specifically, I intend to study how dynamic organizations evolve and under which conditions they successfully adapt to a changing environment. In essay 1 (with D. Levinthal), we develop a simulation model to clarify and explore some of the basic conceptual issues concerning the dynam...