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A Model to Evaluate the Effect of Organizational Adaptation

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2001, Computational & Mathematical Organization Theory

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When an organization's output declines due to either internal changes or changes in its external environment, it needs to adapt. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of different adaptation strategies on organizational per- formance, an organizational model composed of individual models of a five stage interacting decision maker was designed using an object oriented design approach and implemented as a

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