Organizational theory has construed complexity as an objective characteristic of either the structure or the behaviour of an organization. We argue that to further our understanding it should be understood in terms of human cognition of a structure or behavior. This cognitive twist is...

This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands of sma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model at scale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them to...