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This chapter compares the technique of reconstructing theory under the ‘non-statement view’ with the design and implementation of simulation models. For this purpose it uses several different versions of the famous ‘garbage can’ model, redefines this theoretical attempt in terms of the ‘non-statement view’ and compares it to simulation models of different authors who replicated the original ‘garbage can’ model and built on it to extend it.
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Troitzsch, K.G. (2013). Theory Reconstruction of Several Versions of Modern Organisation Theories. In: Tolk, A. (eds) Ontology, Epistemology, and Teleology for Modeling and Simulation. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 44. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31140-6_6
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