Explaining the Emerging Influence of Culture, from Individual Influences to Collective Phenomena
Résumé
This paper presents a simulation model and from it, it derives a theory for explaining how the known influence of culture on individual decisions leads to the known influence of culture on collective phenomena. This simulation models the evolution of a business organization, replicating the key micro-level cultural influences on individual decisions (such as how to allocate tasks and when to accept tasks) and subsequent macro-level collective cultural phenomena (such as robustness and sensitivity to environmental complexity). We derive a theory for relating individual decisions and collective outcomes, based on the exploration of this simulation: we point that cultures appear to be related to specific sets of abstract, coherent, and recurrent interaction patterns among individuals.
Domaines
Modélisation et simulation
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