Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms : Going beyond the "Complexity Effect" with an Agent-based Computational Prototype
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Data di Pubblicazione:
2004
Citazione:
Cognitive Identity and Social Reflexivity of the Industrial District Firms : Going beyond the "Complexity Effect" with an Agent-based Computational Prototype / F. Squazzoni, R. Boero, M. Castellani (LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE). - In: Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems / [a cura di] G. Lindemann, M. Paolucci. - Prima edizione. - [s.l] : Springer, 2004. - ISBN 3540209239. - pp. 48-69 (( Intervento presentato al 1. convegno RASTA tenutosi a Bologna nel 2002.
Abstract:
Industrial districts (IDs) are complex inter-organizational systems based on an evolutionary network of interactions among heterogeneous, localized, functionally integrated and complementary firms. With an agent-based prototype, we explore how cognitive processes and social reflexivity dynamics of ID firms affect technological adaptation and economic performance of ID as a whole. Rather than observing IDs just by the point of view of the so-called bottom-up emerging properties, we try to study how firms develop over time “districtualized” behavioral attitudes, through cognitive capabilities of typifying and contextualizing in a social sense their technological, organizational and economic action. The question is: do cognitive processes, like those mentioned, have a great impact on technological learning and economic performance of firms over time?
Tipologia IRIS:
03 - Contributo in volume
Keywords:
Behavioral State; Technological Learning; Industrial District; Social Simulation; Rough Index
Elenco autori:
F. Squazzoni, R. Boero, M. Castellani
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Titolo del libro:
Regulated Agent-Based Social Systems