We make use of an agent-based simulator of organizations with distributed decision-making in order to highlight factors that generate organizational learning curves. We focus on learning curves that arise with decision-makers that make one single, simple decision: routing things to do to those...

In this work, we adopt simulation in order to explore organization learning in assembling operations as an emergent phenomenon. We focus on the emergence of organizational learning curves which is supposed to be the signal that leads to the spontaneous arise of routines or patterns of...

Since its birth in the early '90s Agent-Based Simulation (ABS) started to diffuse in many disciplines such as Computer Science, Social Science and Economics. Surprisingly, in more applied fields such as the Operational Research (OR) simulation community, where it was supposed to find a natural...

This article presents an agent-based modelof Prato, an Italian textile district where thousands ofsma1l firms specialise into tiny phases of the whole production process. It is an empirical model atscale 1: 1 that reconstructs the information flows between economic actors and connects them...