On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment

Siebers, Peer Olaf, Herath, Dinuka, Bardone, Emanuele, Farahbakhsh, Siavash, Knudsen, Peter Gloggengiehser, Madsen, Jens Koed ORCID: 0000-0003-2405-8496, Mufti, Mehwish, Neumann, Martin, Richards, Dale, Seri, Raffaello and Secchi, Davide (2020) On the quest for defining organisational plasticity: a community modelling experiment. Evidence-based HRM. ISSN 2049-3983

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Purpose: This viewpoint article is concerned with an attempt to advance organisational plasticity (OP) modelling concepts by using a novel community modelling framework (PhiloLab) from the social simulation community to drive the process of idea generation. In addition, the authors want to feed back their experience with PhiloLab as they believe that this way of idea generation could also be of interest to the wider evidence-based human resource management (EBHRM) community. Design/methodology/approach: The authors used some workshop sessions to brainstorm new conceptual ideas in a structured and efficient way with a multidisciplinary group of 14 (mainly academic) participants using PhiloLab. This is a tool from the social simulation community, which stimulates and formally supports discussions about philosophical questions of future societal models by means of developing conceptual agent-based simulation models. This was followed by an analysis of the qualitative data gathered during the PhiloLab sessions, feeding into the definition of a set of primary axioms of a plastic organisation. Findings: The PhiloLab experiment helped with defining a set of primary axioms of a plastic organisation, which are presented in this viewpoint article. The results indicated that the problem was rather complex, but it also showed good potential for an agent-based simulation model to tackle some of the key issues related to OP. The experiment also showed that PhiloLab was very useful in terms of knowledge and idea gathering. Originality/value: Through information gathering and open debates on how to create an agent-based simulation model of a plastic organisation, the authors could identify some of the characteristics of OP and start structuring some of the parameters for a computational simulation. With the outcome of the PhiloLab experiment, the authors are paving the way towards future exploratory computational simulation studies of OP.

Item Type:	Article
Official URL:	https://www.emerald.com/insight/publication/issn/2...
Additional Information:	© 2020 Emerald Publishing Limited
Divisions:	Psychological and Behavioural Science
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD28 Management. Industrial Management
Date Deposited:	25 Sep 2020 14:48
Last Modified:	27 Mar 2024 21:09
URI:	http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/106630

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