Explaining the Emerging Influence of Culture, from Individual Influences to Collective Phenomena
Authored by Lois Vanhee, Frank Dignum
Date Published: 2018
DOI: 10.18564/jasss.3881
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Abstract
This paper presents a simulation model and derives from it a theory to
explain how known cultural influences on individual decisions lead to
collective cultural phenomena. This simulation models the evolution of a
business organization, replicating key micro-level cultural influences
on individual decisions (such as allocating and accepting tasks) and
subsequent macro-level collective cultural phenomena (such as robustness
and sensitivity to environmental complexity). As a result, we derived a
theory on how to relate the influence of culture from individual
decisions to collective outcomes, based on this simulation. We also
point out that cultures appear to be related to specific sets of
abstract, coherent and recurrent interaction patterns between
individuals.
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Agent-based modelling
behavior
values
Cultures
Social simulations