The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice (4.1.0)

The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice is a fundamental model of organizational decision-making originally proposed by J.D. Cohen, J.G. March and J.P. Olsen in 1972. In the 2000s, G. Fioretti and A. Lomi presented a NetLogo agent-based interpretation of this model. This code is the most recent NetLogo update for the Fioretti-Lomi model.

Release Notes

Several bugs have been fixed with respect to version 4.0.0, mainly concerning the presence of multiple agents in decision-making. A parameter span-of-control has been added. Importance is assigned differently to opportunities.

Associated Publications

G. Fioretti and A. Lomi (2008) An Agent-Based Representation of the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice. Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 11 (1).

G. Fioretti and A. Lomi (2008) The Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice: An Agent-Based Reconstruction. Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory, 16 (2): 192-217. DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2007.11.010.

G. Fioretti and A. Lomi (2010) Passing the Buck in the Garbage Can Model of Organizational Choice (with A. Lomi). Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory, 16 (2): 113-143. DOI: 10.1007/s10588-010-9070-6.

Fioretti, G. and Lomi, A. (2027) A Garbage Can Model of Organizational Decision Making. In C.A. Coen and J.R. Larson (eds.) Agent-Based Modeling for Research on Groups, Networks, and Organizations. APA, forthcoming.