Vezzoso, Simonetta, Marengo, Luigi
This interdisciplinary paper focuses on an evolutionary and problem-solving approach to intellectual property rights in order to discuss some controversial issues in the European legislation on...
Cognition, institutions, near decomposability : rethinking Herbert Simon's contribution (2002)
Egidi, Massimo, Marengo, Luigi
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Decomposability and modularity of economic interactions (2001)
Marengo, Luigi, Pasquali, Corrado, Valente, Marco
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Interdependencies, nearly-decomposability and adaptation (1999)
Frenken, Koen, Marengo, Luigi, Valente, Marco
In this paper we discuss some limitations that selection mechanisms face when the entities subject to selection are complex systems of interdependent elements. We briefly present Kauffman’s NK...
Some Notes On Organisational Adaptation On Rugged Fitness Landscapes (1997)
Introduction. That business firms, and economic organisations more in general, are systems of tightly coupled interdependent elements has been widely recognised by business historians (cf., for...
Some Notes On Organisational Adaptation On Rugged Fitness Landscapes (1997)
Introduction. That business firms, and economic organisations more in general, are systems of tightly coupled interdependent elements has been widely recognised by business historians (cf., for...
Learning in evolutionary environments (1996)
Dosi, Giovanni, Marengo, Luigi, Fagiolo, Giorgio
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Division of Labour and Social Coordination Modes : A simple simulation model (1995)
Egidi, Massimo, Marengo, Luigi
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the relationship between the process of functional division of labour and the modes in which activities and plans are coordinated. We consider a...
Knowledge, coordination and learning in an adaptive model of the firm / (1991)
Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Sussex, 1991.
Division Of Labour And Social Coordination Modes - A simple simulation model (1970)
This paper presents a preliminary investigation of the relationship between the process of functional division of labour and the modes in which activities and plans are coordinated. We consider a...
Giovanni Dosi, Marco Faillo, Luigi Marengo
This paper presents a critical overview of some recent attempts at building formal models of organizations as information-processing and problem-solving entities. We distinguish between two classes...
The Demand for Intermediate Goods in an Input-Output Framework: A Methodological Note.
This methodological note suggests the use of the maximum eigenvalues of the matrices of the direct input-output coefficients and of the coefficients of vertically integrated sectors as indicators of...
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The structure of problem-solving knowledge and the structure of organisations
Luigi Marengo, Giovanni Dosi, Paolo Legrenzi, Corrado Pasquali
This work presents a model of organisational problem solving able to account for the relationships between problem complexity, tasks decentralilzation and problem solving efficiency. Whenever problem...
Problem-Solving Behaviours, Organisational Forms and the Complexity of Tasks
Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, Luigi Marengo
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Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Luigi Marengo
In this paper we present a general model of organizational problem-solving in which we explore the relationship between problem complexity, decentralization of tasks and reward schemes. When facing...
The Economics Of System Integration: Toward An Evolutionary Interpretation.
Giovanni Dosi, Mike Hobday, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe
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Giovanni Dosi, Daniel Levinthal, Luigi Marengo
In this paper we present a general model of organizational problem-solving in which organizations engage into an activity of cognition (understanding the world in which they operate) and an activity...
Endogenous Networks in Random Population Games
Giorgio Fagiolo, Luigi Marengo, Marco Valente
Population learning in dynamic economies has been traditionally studied in over-simplified settings where payoff landscapes are very smooth. Indeed, in these models, all agents play the same...
Division of Labor, Organizational Coordination and Market Mechanism in Collective Problem-Solving
This paper builds upon a view of economic system and individual economic organization as problem-solving arrangements and presents a simple model of adaptive problem-solving driven by trial-and-error...
Learning in Evolutionary Environments
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Giorgio Fagiolo
The purpose of this work is to present a sort of short selective guide to an enormous and diverse literature on learning processes in economics. We argue that learning is an ubiquitous characteristic...
How to Construct Alternatives. A computational voting model
Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali
Social choice models usually assume that choice is among pre-defined, uni-dimensional and "simple" objects. Very often, on the contrary, choice is among multi-featured and "complex" objects: a...
Giovanni Dosi, Luigi Marengo, Corrado Pasquali
The paper attempts a critical assessment of both the theory and the empirical evidence on the role of appropriability and in particular of Intellectual Property Right (IPR) as incentives for...
On the Convergence of Evolutionary and Behavioral Theories of Organizations: A Tentative Roadmap
The behavioral theory of the firm has been acknowledged as one of the most fundamental pillars on which evolutionary theorizing in economics has been built. Nelson and Winter’s 1982 book is...
Population Learning in a Model with Random Payoff Landscapes and Endogenous Networks
Giorgio Fagiolo, Luigi Marengo, Marco Valente
Population learning in dynamic economies with endogenous network formation has been traditionally studied in basic settings where agents face quite simple and predictable strategic situations (e.g....
Modularity has recently become an important concept in economics and management science alike (Ulrich 1995; Baldwin and Clark 2000). However, it is not always clear what is meant by modularity as...
Endogenous Networks in Random Population Games
Marco Valente, Giorgio Fagiolo, Luigi Marengo
Dynamic Population Games, Bounded Rationality, Endogenous Networks, Fitness Landscapes, Evolutionary Environments, Adaptive Expectations.
Endogenous Networks in Random Population Games
Giorgio Fagiolo, Luigi Marengo, Marco Valente
In the last years, many contributions have been exploring population learning in economies where myopic agents play bilateral games and are allowed to repeatedly choose their pure strategies in the...
A learning-to-forecast experiment on the foreign exchange market with a classifier system
Beltrametti, Luca, Fiorentini, Riccardo, Marengo, Luigi, Tamborini, Roberto
Speculation, Heterogeneity and Learning: A Simulation Model of Exchange Rates Dynamics.
Marengo, Luigi, Tordjman, Helene
This paper presents a model of a speculative determination of exchange rates. The authors' basic claim is that speculation is intrinsically a disequilibrium phenomenon, mainly because the imperfect...
The Value and Costs of Modularity: A Cognitive Perspective
Stefano Brusoni, Luigi Marengo, Andrea Prencipe, Marco Valente
This paper discusses the issue of modularity from a problem-solving perspective. Modularity is in fact a decomposition heuristic, through which a complex problem is decomposed into independent or...
Giovanni Dosi, Daniel A. Levinthal, Luigi Marengo
In this paper we present a general model of organizational problem-solving in which we explore the relationship between problem complexity, decentralization of tasks and reward schemes. When facing...
Lazaric, Nathalie, Marengo, Luigi
This paper is an initial attempt to shed new light on the nature and dynamics of technological agreements based on some cognitive dimensions. The main purpose of such agreements is to create new...
This article provides an overview of the Italian side of Giovanni Dosi in terms of his career and works. It brings up two unpublished papers by Dosi showing in part his wider interests in...
Norms as emergent properties of adaptive learning: The case of economic routines
Marco Valente, Andrea Bassanini, Luigi Marengo, Giovanni Dosi
Interaction among autonomous decision-makers is usually modelled in economics in game-theoretic terms or within the framework of General Equilibrium. Game-theoretic and General Equilibrium models...
Routines and Other Recurring Action Patterns of Organizations: Contemporary Research Issues
Michael D. Cohen, Roger Burkhart, Giovanni Dosi, Massimo Egidi, Luigi Marengo, Massimo Warglien, ...
This working paper reports the main lines of discussion that developed during a four-day workshop held August 10-13, 1995, at the Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico. The workshop was devoted to...
Nathalie Lazaric, Luigi Marengo
This paper tries to bring new insights on the dynamics of inter-firm by focusing on cognitive and organisational dimensions. We consider the knowledge bases created inside the agreement and the...