A Multi-agent Simulation Study On The Evolution Mechanism Of Organizational Routines

As the key to opening a “black box” of the enterprise,Organizational routines can guide the members of the organization to carry out activities and accomplish tasks,and can help them better understand the process of enterprise change.Organizational routines are repetitive,recognizable and interdependent circular interaction model with many individual participants.Although scholars have made great progress in understanding organizational routines,the root problem at the micro level of this concept has not received sufficient attention so far.Around this research topic,this paper simulates and models the organizational routines system and its evolution mechanism from the perspective of individual participants.First of all,this paper reviews and analyzes the organizational routines,theoretical methods and technical tools involved.Secondly,this paper analyzes the complex adaptive characteristics and main influencing factors of the organizational routines system to proposes a conceptual model.Then,this paper simulates the NK model of the organizational routines system based on the MATLAB simulation platform,and explores how the eight main factors involved individual memory,complex network relationship,group reorganization,group size,task complexity,turnover rate,downsize and problem change affect and act on the evolution of organizational routines by analyzing the simulation results.Finally,this paper summarizes the innovation points,limitations and future prospects of the research.The main conclusions of the study are as follows:(1)The complex network topological relationship of individual participants plays an important role and influence on the formation and evolution of organizational practices;(2)different types of memory have different effects on their implementation efficiency.(3)The relationship between recombination frequency and convention execution efficiency insmall world networks and scale-free networks presents a roughly inverted U-shaped relationship;(4)organizational size reduction affects the ability of organizational practice and custom reconstruction;(5)in the event of environmental changes Reducing the size of the organization when the problem is abrupt will undermine established practices,but will promote long-term organization.