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Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

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Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

By: Edoardo Mollona

This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory. The key hypothesis is that modelling and computer simulation provide an environment to develop, test and articulate theoretical propositions. In general, computer simulation provides an experimental environment where researchers are able to play with symbolic representations of phenomena by modifying the model’s structure and activating or deactivating model’s parameters. This environment allows to both generating hypotheses to ex post explain observed phenomena or to ex ante generate distributions of unrealized events thereby envisioning areas for further empirical investigations. Under a methodological perspective, the volume investigates logics and techniques to design a research strategy grounded on computer simulation. In particular, the articles in the book concentrate on two different techniques, and philosophies, to set up a simulation study: System Dynamics, which is grounded on differential equations and feedback theory, and agent-based modeling. The book describes how computer simulation helps to look into research issues typical to strategic management and organizational theory. In this respect, such themes as firms’ diversification strategies, competitive strategy, rivalry and the impact of role dynamics on organizational performances are explored through the lenses of computer simulation models.

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

The globally spreading privatisation wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatisation of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterised an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci’s theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatisation process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatisation of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatisation and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology, and political science.

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Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

By: Edoardo Mollona

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Management and organization theories have, in the years, developed rich methodological paraphernalia to test hypotheses. This book addresses possible applications of computer simulation to theory building in management and organizational theory.

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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A Gramscian Analysis

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

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Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

A Gramscian Analysis

By: Edoardo Mollona,Luca Pareschi

The globally spreading privatization wave that occurred in the 1990s deeply changed the structure of economic institutions worldwide. This turmoil overturned not only economic institutions, but shared cultural and societal institutions as well. This book is the result of an investigation into the history of the privatization of the steel industry in Italy, completed between 1994 and 1995. It explores the history of the Italian steel industry by looking at the interplay of local intertwined interests, political relations, and ideological formations that characterized an idiosyncratic hegemonic historical bloc. Rather than stigmatising this pattern as the legacy of a dysfunctional provincialism, the authors mobilise Gramsci's theory of hegemony to explain how the Italian privatization process unfolded to accommodate economic pressures, political interests, and ideological constraints of a hegemonic social group, or aggregation of social groups. Thus, in reconstructing the privatization of Italian steel, this book proposes a hegemony theory of privatization and, more generally, describes a model that explains how political and cultural dynamics give rise to idiosyncratic local variations in globally spreading policies. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of business history, economics, sociology and political science"--

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Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

Computational Analysis of Firms’ Organization and Strategic Behaviour

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatisation

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

Politics and Rhetoric of Italian State Steel Privatizations

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