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Journal of Undergraduate Research

Keywords

social processes. organizational formation, computer simulation

College

Marriott School of Management

Department

Management

Abstract

When I applied for an ORCA grant one year ago, the stated purpose of my study was to “design, develop, and write the code for an agent based computer simulation which will explicitly attempt to model the social processes by which nascent firms and their entrepreneurial founders are matched with workers to thereby create an organization.” Once the simulation was completed, I hoped to be able to publish the results in a joint publication with my faculty mentor. Of these two goals – first creating a simulation, and then publishing the results – I have successfully accomplished the first but was unable to accomplish the second this year. Despite disappointment at not being able to publish, the skills I gained while working on the project (more than 150 hours of programming and researching) have opened up exciting new avenues for research with other professors and have also connected me with some of the premier researchers in business strategy at places such as Harvard and U Penn.

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