Cohen, March and Olsen\'s Garbage Can Model (GCM) of organizational choice represent perhaps the first – and remains by far the most influential –agent-based representation of organizational decision processes. According to the GCM organizations are conceptualized as crossroads of...

We reconstruct Cohen, March and Olsen's Garbage Can model of organizational choice as an agent-based model. In the original model, the members of an organization can postpone decision-making. We add another means for avoiding making decisions, that of buck-passing difficult problems to...

Agent-based simulation models allow to reproduce the structure of interactions between the members of an organization, deriving organizational decision-making from individual behavior. This article explains the philosophy of agent-based models, expounds exemplary applications to crucial issues...