SOCIOLOGY - COMPUTATIONAL ORGANIZATION THEORY

Computational organization theory is a growing interdisciplinary area centered on the development of organization theory through the use of computational techniques. Research in this area grows out of work in m any scientific areas including sociology, psychology, classic organiza tion theory, and distributed artificial intelligence. The research in this area is united by a view of organizations as collections of proce sses and intelligent adaptive agents that are task oriented, socially situated, and technologically bound. This paper reviews this growing a rea and discusses both issues involved in the development of models in this area and theoretical issues that are being explored by work in t his area.