WP053: OrgSim - A Tool to Simulate Organization Planning, Coordination, and Information Processing

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Abstract
This report is a technical manual for the OrgSim simulation program. OrgSim is a GAMS program that can simulate planning, coordination, and information processing in an organization. The basis is a mathematical programming presentation of organizational activities. The theoretical background is described in R. B. Burton and B. Obel, Designing Efficient Organizations: Modeling and Experimentation, North Holland, 1984 and in Mathematical Contingency Modeling for Organizational Design: Taking Stock, in R. M. Burton and B. Obel, Design Models for Hierarchical Organizations: Computation, Information and Decentralization, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston, 1995, pp. 3-34. The manual describes the mathematical models using GAMS notation. Additional all files are listed and commented upon. Further, a complete data set for the sample case - HOC (Burton and Obel, 1984, 1995) is given.

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Date created August 1998

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Author Obel, Borge
Author Burton, Richard M.

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Subject CIFE
Subject Center for Integrated Facility Engineering
Subject Stanford University
Subject Coordination
Subject Information Processing
Subject OrgSim
Subject Planning
Subject Simulation
Genre Technical report

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Obel, Borge and Burton, Richard M.. (1998). WP053: OrgSim - A Tool to Simulate Organization Planning, Coordination, and Information Processing. Stanford Digital Repository. Available at: http://purl.stanford.edu/bx362rv4891

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