Interdependence Days

Goal interdependence

With friends, family members, romantic partners, and coworkers, people form interdependent units, shaping each other’s everyday experiences. According to the Transactive Goal Dynamics model, goal pursuit occurs within these units, not apart from them. As a result, a great deal of goal pursuit is interpersonally driven and influenced. Although historically, social psychological research has focu...

Production Interdependence and Welfare

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Information and Economic Interdependence

Mutual Interdependence Analysis (MIA)

Functional Data Analysis (FDA) is used for datasets that are more meaningfully represented in the functional form. Functional principal component analysis, for instance, is used to extract a set of functions of maximum variance that can represent the data. In this paper, a method of Mutual Interdependence Analysis (MIA) is proposed that can extract an equally correlated function with a set of i...

Interdependence & Organization Design

If organizations are multi-agent systems with goals, there must exist a mapping from organizational level goals to agent level tasks. Such a mapping, at least when explicitly recognized (even if not intentionally crafted) is what we think of typically as division of labor. Because the results of the efforts so divided must be integrated back, the division of labor results in interdependence bet...