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– persistence despite failures – to ensure broad search for good solutions. Using an agent-based simulation model, I show that the … link between patience and innovation is complex: Moderate levels of patience promote broad and effective search. High … search. Furthermore, because translating the gains of patience into performance improvements requires time, low levels of …
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complexity metrics, we find that all three patterns are well organized by metrics suggested by Lipman (1995) and Gabaix (2014 …
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Modularity is an important concept in evolutionary theorizing but lack of a consistent definition renders study difficult. Using the generalized NK-model of fitness landscapes, we differentiate modularity from decomposability. Modular and decomposable systems are both composed of subsystems, but...
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When a decision-maker’s attention is limited, her decisions depend on what she focuses on. This gives interested parties an incentive to manipulate not only the substance of communication but also the decision-maker’s attention allocation. This paper models such attention manipulation. In...
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by the number of activities integrated elsewhere in a project and by the level of “between complexity” and “within … complexity” of those activities. Our results show that managerial diseconomies of scale, which arise when contractors integrate … more activities, and the different types of complexity, affect the relative advantages of hierarchical governance. In a …
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Predictive cost reduction based on a thermodynamic model, in which parameters associated with a process are accessed. The parameters include a quantity of units of work-in-process at first and second times, and first and second constants respectively indicative of growth between the first and...
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This paper empirically investigates how organizational hierarchy affects the allocation of credit within a bank. Using an exogenous variation in organizational design, induced by a reorganization plan implemented in roughly 2,000 bank branches in India during 1999 - 2006, and employing a...
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the complexity stemming from interactions among components of a system. For this reason NK models have been applied in … complexity. However, the paper suggests that NK suffers from un-necessary limitations and difficulties due to its peculiar …
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assumed pattern of interaction. The complexity era, as it is called, requires original insights and innovative approaches, in … order to reinterpret the economic reality. This paper intends to contribute to the complexity literature in economics by … macroeconomic complexity. …
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