Towards Agent-Based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach: 14th Social Simulation Conference, 2018

A.E. Fard; R. Mercuur; V. Dignum; C.M. Jonker; B. van de Walle; Verhagen H.; Borit M.; Bravo G.; Wijermans N.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_13

Towards Agent-Based Models of Rumours in Organizations: A Social Practice Theory Approach: 14th Social Simulation Conference, 2018

A.E. Fard^*
, R. Mercuur
, V. Dignum
, C.M. Jonker
, B. van de Walle
, Verhagen H. (Editor)
, Borit M. (Editor)
, Bravo G. (Editor)
, Wijermans N. (Editor)

^*Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

Rumour is a collective emergent phenomenon with a potential for provoking a crisis. Modelling approaches have been deployed since five decades ago; however, the focus was mostly on epidemic behaviour of the rumours which does not take into account the differences between agents. We use social practice theory to model agent decision-making in organizational rumourmongering. Such an approach provides us with an opportunity to model rumourmongering agents with a layer of cognitive realism and study the impacts of various intervention strategies for prevention and control of rumours in organizations

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Social Simulation
Chapter	13
Pages	141-153
Number of pages	13
ISBN (Electronic)	9783030341275
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34127-5_13
Publication status	Published - 2020

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Agent-based model
Organization
Rumour
Social practice theory

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