Artificial Intelligence in Organization and Management Theory: Models of Distributed Activity

The papers collected in this book form an international overview of recent research into artificial intelligence (AI) in organization and management theory. AI is rapidly changing the face of both the modern organization and of organizational research. Conversely, modern organizations are increasingly serving as a paradigm for parallel computer hardware and software. Important topics presently emerging are: knowledge-based systems in organizations and for organization theory; co-ordination theory (using human organizations as paradigms for computer architecture and vice versa); connectionism (parallel distributed processes in organizations); logic, scripts and other formal languages for describing and understanding organizational behaviour; heuristic simulation for strategic management and organizational design; and machine learning versus organizational learning.