Research Article

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

Table 3

Satisficing approach, aspiration level for objective 2: .

Interdependencies Final performances Average performances
obj 1/obj 2

Panel A: coordination mode: central
Low/low 0.8814 0.9076 0.8945 0.8967 0.9016 0.8856
Low/medium 0.8197 0.8945 0.8571 0.8098 0.8877 0.8488
Medium/medium 0.7918 0.8876 0.8397 0.7826 0.8815 0.8321
Low/high 0.7338 0.8616 0.7977 0.7296 0.8569 0.7932
Medium/high 0.7146 0.8606 0.7876 0.7103 0.8561 0.7832
High/high 0.7080 0.8568 0.7824 0.7037 0.8525 0.7781

Panel B: coordination mode: decentral
Low/low 0.8803 0.9089 0.8946 0.8734 0.9073 0.8903
Low/medium 0.8324 0.8917 0.8620 0.8226 0.8860 0.8543
Medium/medium 0.7980 0.8901 0.8441 0.7885 0.8848 0.8366
Low/high 0.7389 0.8609 0.7999 0.7328 0.8517 0.7922
Medium/high 0.7144 0.8588 0.7866 0.7084 0.8495 0.7789
High/high 0.7132 0.8587 0.7859 0.7070 0.8495 0.7783

Incentivisation: and . Results are based on 450 landscapes, each with 20 adaptive walks. obj = objective, confidence intervals vary from 0.001 to 0.004 on the 99.9% level.