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Agent-Based Computational Modeling

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1. “Quasi-natural Organization Science,” Organization Science, 8, 1997, 351–381.
2. “Complexity vs. Selection: Retuning Kauffman’s ‘Tunable’ Landscape.” Working paper, June 1997, 32 pages. [Accepted at Organization Science but #8 (below) was substituted instead—simpler.]
3. “What is Theory? Really: Toward a Model-Centered Organization Science.” Working paper, July 1998, 26 pages.
4. “Complexity vs. Selection Among Coevolutionary Firms,” Comportamento Organizacionale Gestão, 4, 1998, 17–59.
5. “Avoiding Complexity Catastrophe in Coevolutionary Pockets: Strategies for Rugged Landscapes,” Organization Science, 10, 1999, 294–321.
6. “Self-Organization, Complexity Catastrophes, and Microstate Models at the Edge of Chaos.” In J. A. C. Baum and B. McKelvey (eds.), Variations in Organization Science: In Honor of Donald T. Campbell. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1999, 279–307.
7. “Toward a Model-Centered Strategy Science: More Experiments, Less History.” In R. Sanchez and A. Heene (eds.), Research in Competence-Based Management. Greenwich CT: JAI Press, 2000: 217–253.
8. “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling.” Presented at the National Academy of Sciences Colloquium—Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling, October, 5-6, 2001. (33 page version)
9. “On the Agent-Modeling of Emergence: Some Scaling Propositions” (Benyamin Bergmann Lichtenstein 1st author). Working paper, University of Hartford, CT, January 2002.
10. “Model-Centered Organization Science Epistemology.” In J. A. C. Baum (ed.), Companion to Organizations, Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 2002, 752–780, + Glossary of Epistemology Terms, 889–898.
11. “Foundations of New Social Science: Institutional Legitimacy from Philosophy, Complexity Science, Postmodernism, and Agent-based Modeling.” Presented at the National Academy of Sciences Colloquium—Adaptive Agents, Intelligence and Emergent Human Organization: Capturing Complexity Through Agent-Based Modeling, October, 5-6, 2001. (33 page version)
12. “Situated Learning Theory: Adding Rate and Complexity Effects via Kauffman’s NK Model” (Y. Yuan, 1st author). Resubmitted to Nonlinear Dynamics, Psychology, and Life Sciences, December 2002, 20 pages.
13. “Postmodernism vs. Truth in Management Theory.” In Ed Locke, (ed.), Post: Modernism & Management: Pros, Cons, and Alternatives. Amsterdam, NL: Elsevier, 2003, 28 pages.
14. “Social Order-Creation Instability Dynamics: Heterogeneous Agents and Fast-Motion Science—on the 100th Anniversary of Bénard’s Dissertation,” Journal of Bioeconomics, 2003, 16 pages.
15. “Toward a Complexity Theory of Entrepreneurship,” Journal of Business Venturing, 2003, 23 pages.