Application of Agent-Based Modeling (ABM) in Organizational Research on Teams and Groups

With its focus on entities interacting, agent-based modeling is the quintessential methodology for understanding emergent phenomena and the processes of emerging in complex systems. Agent-based modeling (ABM) is a computational social science “that enables a researcher to create, analyze, and experiment with models composed of agents that interact within an environment” (Gilbert, 2008). ABM has contributed to theory creation and development in...