Computational Organizational Cognition: A Study on Thinking and Action in Organizations

In Computational Organizational Cognition, Davide Secchi presents an innovative definition of organizational cognition using a research tradition that builds on the Embodied/Distributed/Extended Cognition (EDEC) perspectives and it is developed through agent-based computational simulation modelling.

After an overview of EDEC perspectives, Computational Organizational Cognition presents four simulations which allow readers to clearly assess the advantages of agent-based computational organizational cognition (AOC) for both theory and practice. The book attempts to demonstrate how AOC is a useful if not essential instrument to explore, understand and analyze the inner complexities of organizational cognition. AOC is a powerful tool and an approach for organizational research enquiry at the service of both organizational scholars and cognitive scientists.

Davide Secchi is Associate Professor of Organisational Cognition and Director of the Research Centre for Computational & Organisational Cognition at the University of Southern Denmark in Slagelse. He is the author of Extendable Rationality (2011) and co-editor of Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior (with M. Neumann, 2016).