Abstract
![CDATA[Firms achieve competitive advantage in part through the development of cooperative relations with other firms and organisations. We describe a program of research designed to map and model the development of cooperative inter-firm relations, including the processes and paths by which firms may evolve from adversarial to more cooperative relations. Narrative event history methods are used to develop stylised histories of business relations in various contexts and to identify relevant causal mechanisms to be included in the agent-based models of relationship and network evolution. The relationship histories provide the means of calibrating and testing the agent-based models developed.]]
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 6th International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS), held in Boston, MA., 25-30 June, 2006 |
Publisher | New England Institute for the Study of Complexity |
Number of pages | 1 |
Publication status | Published - 2008 |
Event | International Conference on Complex Systems - Duration: 1 Jan 2008 → … |
Conference
Conference | International Conference on Complex Systems |
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Period | 1/01/08 → … |
Keywords
- business enterprises
- business networks
- relationships
- evolution
- multiagent systems