FROM FACTORS TO ACTORS: Computational Sociology and Agent-Based Modeling
By Michael W. Macy, R. Willer. 2002
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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
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In Sociology and Political Science
- Hillol Bala
- Christian E. G. Steglich
- Carter T. Butts
- Herman Aguinis
- V. Venkatesh
- Linda Klebe Treviño
- Ko de Ruyter
- Eliot R. Smith
In Statistical and Nonlinear Physics
- Christian E. G. Steglich
- Carter T. Butts
- Tom A. B. Snijders
- Gerhard G. van de Bunt
- Michael W. Macy
- Eliot R. Smith
- Frederica R. Conrey
- Herman Aguinis
Citations in the corpus
- NEW HORIZONS FOR MANAGING THE ENVIRONMENT: A REVIEW OF COUPLED SOCIAL‐ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS MODELING (2012, background): “In the context of natural resource management, complex systems research has addressed how decentralized local interactions of heterogeneous autonomous agents and the ecological or social structure within which they are embedded give rise to collective outcomes such as system-level population dynamic”
- Customer-to-Customer Interactions: Broadening the Scope of Word of Mouth Research (2010, background): “Behavioral learning processes have been extensively discussed in the economics literature, especially with respect to herd behavior and information dissemination (Bikhchandani, Hirshleifer, and Welch 1992), as well as in the sociology literature that studies collective action (Macy and Willer 2002).”
- Technology Acceptance Model 3 and a Research Agenda on Interventions (2008, background): “Simulation and agent-based modeling approaches (e.g., Macy & Willer, 2002; Raghu, Rao, & Sen, 2003) offer low-cost alternatives to investigate the impact of design characteristics on IT adoption and use.”
- Knowledge, Networks, and Knowledge Networks (2011, methodology): “A methodological approach that is well suited to the examination of multilevel relationships is agent-based simulation modeling (Macy & Willer, 2002).”
- THE BEST AND THE REST: REVISITING THE NORM OF NORMALITY OF INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE (2012, methodology): “In addition, agent-based modeling (ABM) is an inductive analytic tool that operates without the theoretical assumptions that our results debunk (see Macy & Willer, 2002 for a review of ABM).”
- Time and the Entrepreneurial Journey: The Problems and Promise of Studying Entrepreneurship as a Process (2013, background): “Other calls have been made for using ABM in the study of innovation / new product development (Garcia, 2005) and as a theoretical tool for bridging micro and macro levels in sociology (Macy and Willer, 2002).”
- How Network Externalities Can Exacerbate Intergroup Inequality1 (2011, background): “…some network externalities are identity-specific rather than general: we want enough people to like sushi for our favorite Japanese restaurant to keep its doors open and its servings fresh, or to contribute to our favorite charity so that it can continue to promote causes we cherish, but we do…”
- Studying Mechanisms To Strengthen Causal Inferences In Quantitative Research (2008, background): “…to say, agent-based models make predictions about social outcomes, given different assumptions about the properties, actions, and interactions among the actors (see Axelrod 1997; Epstein and Axtell 1996; Macy and Willer 2002; and the chapter by Page in the current volume for a range of examples).”