Research Article

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

Table 5

Short-run schism.

Interdependencies Final performancesAverage performances
obj 1/obj 2

Panel A: coordination mode: central
Low/low 0.8878 0.8093 0.8486 0.8434 0.8429 0.8432
Low/medium 0.9046 0.7465 0.8256 0.8624 0.7897 0.8261
Medium/medium 0.8579 0.7790 0.8185 0.8062 0.8081 0.8072
Low/high 0.9150 0.6954 0.8052 0.8751 0.7515 0.8133
Medium/high 0.8664 0.7373 0.8018 0.8196 0.7683 0.7940
High/high 0.8382 0.7711 0.8047 0.7821 0.7823 0.7822

Panel B: coordination mode: decentral
Low/low 0.8859 0.7638 0.8248 0.8210 0.8246 0.8228
Low/medium 0.8842 0.7055 0.7949 0.8177 0.7402 0.7790
Medium/medium 0.7748 0.6979 0.7364 0.7311 0.7317 0.7314
Low/high 0.8865 0.6766 0.7816 0.8164 0.6875 0.7520
Medium/high 0.7750 0.6672 0.7211 0.7308 0.6788 0.7048
High/high 0.7133 0.6772 0.6953 0.6841 0.6846 0.6843

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.