Emergence of Coordination in Growing Decision-Making Organizations: The Role of Complexity, Search Strategy, and Cost of Effort
Table 2
Parameter settings.
Parameter
Values/types
Parameters fixed for all experiments (see Section 4.2.1)
Observation period
Interval of learning
Interval of growth stages
Growth stages
Number of choices
In growth stage : In growth stage : In growth stage :
Number of distributed decision-makers
In growth stage : distributed decision-makers with sub-problems and In growth stage :, i.e., one additional distributed decision-maker 3 with sub-problem In growth stage :, i.e., one further additional decision-maker 4 with sub-problem
Precision of ex-ante evaluation
Distributed decision-makers: Central agent (headquarter):
Modes of coordination
Aspiration level
Learning strength
Parameters subject to variation across experiments (see Section 4.2.2)
Complexity of decision problem
“Decomposable”; “nondecomposable”, for details of interaction structures, see Figure 1
Search strategy
“Exploitation only”: and “Exploitation and exploration”: and “Exploration only”: and
