Reprogramming the Software that Runs on Organizations: Social Agents as Knowledge-based Computational

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Examining computational models of organizational theories is an exercise in crosscultural mediation. To thrive in the organizational domain of discourse, we need both worlds. It is not an either/or decision: we need to consider both cogniting agents and computational automata. We need both physical symbol systems and physical grounded systems. We need Rodney Brooks’s ants with culture, knowledge, and a social conscience. Organizations whose software is not functioning as it should, may have to be reprogrammed.