Midi de la recherche SIO avec Ning Nan

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Le Département de systèmes d’information organisationnels vous invite à une présentation de la professeure Ning Nan sur sa recherche Understanding multilevel digital phenomena through agent-based modeling.

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Understanding multilevel digital phenomena through agent-based modeling

Digital phenomena often involve decentralized decisions by diverse actors whose interactions generate intended and unintended consequences across multiple levels. Understanding these emergent outcomes presents important challenges for digital innovation research. This presentation illustrates how agent-based modeling (ABM) can address these challenges by capturing actor diversity, interdependent decisions, and the emergence of collective outcomes. Using packaged software reuse as an illustrative context, we develop an empirically grounded agent-based model to examine how diversity among individual re-users shapes outcomes at the project and ecosystem levels. Our simulations reveal that beneficial and detrimental outcomes can emerge simultaneously, and that similar levels of actor diversity can produce markedly different outcomes. Moreover, different configurations of diversity can generate similar outcomes, highlighting the complex relationships between individual attributes and collective consequences. These findings demonstrate the value of ABM for understanding multilevel digital phenomena and developing theoretical insights into the roles of diversity, interaction, and emergence in digital innovation.