Designing Stress Resistant Organizations demonstrates, in a
persuasive way, how computational organization theory can be applied to
advance the field of management with its successful integration of
theory and practice.
At the theoretical level, the book contains a comprehensive
computational framework called DYCORP, which simulates dynamic and
interactive organizational behaviors by incorporating multiple factors
such as organizational design, task environment, and stress, and which
generates consistent and insightful propositions on organizational
performance.
The book utilizes an organization science based approach to
computational modeling. This approach recognizes the limit of human
cognition as it was outlined by Herbert A. Simon in 1947. The model
strives to focus on the essence of the reality that is most relevant to
the research issue. This approach has been proven to be more beneficial
for us to understand the underlying dynamics of the phenomenon. At the
empirical level, this book describes an in-depth, though exploratory,
analysis of sixty-nine organizational cases in the corporate world
collected from multiple sources, which can provide contrast with and
shed insight into the computational framework.
The book combines both reporting on the research and how to do it that
will appeal to a broad range of individuals. We would anticipate that
academic researchers and graduate students will find the book useful and
they, in turn, will then add to the growing area of computational
organizational theory.
