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This chapter introduces the book Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior presenting the idea of agent-based modeling as a “new frontier” for organizational research. After providing some indications of the challenge of bringing together cross-disciplinary and specialization tensions, the chapter suggests that autonomy, sociality, and cross-validation make this technique particularly suited to analyze organizational behavior research. An overview of the book follows with a short summary of the four parts of the book and each and every chapter. This introduction concludes with a map of what this new research frontier is about, covering both methodological and theoretical grounds.
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Not all samples in organizational behavior have these characteristics; in fact, especially in organizational team research, observations are not independent and this violation led to the adoption of particular techniques called “multilevel regression analysis.”
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Neumann, M., Secchi, D. (2016). Exploring the New Frontier: Computational Studies of Organizational Behavior. In: Secchi, D., Neumann, M. (eds) Agent-Based Simulation of Organizational Behavior. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18153-0_1
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