Research Article

Multiobjective Decision Making Policies and Coordination Mechanisms in Hierarchical Organizations: Results of an Agent-Based Simulation

Table 1

Equal weighting.

Interdependencies Final performances Average performances
obj 1/obj 2

Panel A: coordination mode: central
Low/low 0.8984 0.8994 0.8989 0.8941 0.8949 0.8945
Low/medium 0.8777 0.8737 0.8757 0.8734 0.8694 0.8714
Medium/medium 0.8515 0.8475 0.8495 0.8479 0.8437 0.8458
Low/high 0.8515 0.8508 0.8512 0.8478 0.8474 0.8476
Medium/high 0.8215 0.8334 0.8274 0.8186 0.8303 0.8245
High/high 0.8089 0.8084 0.8087 0.8070 0.8063 0.8066

Panel B: coordination mode: decentral
Low/low 0.8987 0.8975 0.8981 0.8957 0.8945 0.8951
Low/medium 0.9004 0.8705 0.8855 0.8967 0.8638 0.8803
Medium/medium 0.8599 0.8596 0.8598 0.8530 0.8525 0.8527
Low/high 0.8961 0.8415 0.8688 0.8909 0.8310 0.8609
Medium/high 0.8457 0.8323 0.8390 0.8369 0.8198 0.8284
High/high 0.8121 0.8153 0.8137 0.7989 0.8023 0.8006

Incentivisation: and . Results are based on 450 landscapes, each with 20 adaptive walks. obj = objective, confidence intervals vary from 0.002 to 0.005 on the 99.9% level.