Heuristics in Organizations and Society
Turin, 13rd - 14th December, 2018
Collegio Carlo Alberto
With the support of
The Herbert Simon Society brings together cognitive scientists, economists, social scientists and philosophers aiming to renew the fundamental concepts of rationality and social action. Starting from the seminal work of Herbert A. Simon in economics, psychology, computer science, organizational theory, philosophy of science, the HSS wishes to tackle the current debate about the crisis of economic and social rationality, the alternative architectures of mind, the mind-brain relations and the simulation of creativity.
Main Conference Topics
(it’s a potential list but topics are not limited to the following):
- Agent based modelling of organizations
- Behavioral Economics
- Behavioral Public Administration
- Bounded Rationality
- Complexity and organizations
- Conflicts in organizations
- Cognitive Economics
- Ecological Rationality
- Idiosyncratic organizational heuristics
- Less-is-More
- Lexicographic Heuristics
- Mirror neurons and organizational learning
- Neurocognitive basis of organizational heuristics
- One reason-based heuristics
- Organizational categorization
- Organizational decision making in stable and unstable environments
- Organizational learning
- Organizational memory
- Organizational perceptions
- Organizational procedures
- Recognition-Based Heuristics
- Routines
- Satisficing Heuristics
- Social Rules
- Social Imitation
- Trade-Off Heuristics
CONFERENCE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Key speakers
Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Ralph Hertwig (Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC) - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Ulrich Hoffrage (Université de Lausanne)
Laura Martignon (Ludwigsburg University)
Important Notes: Single papers from all possible disciplines dealing with the topics of the conference can be submitted (see relevant topics below), sending title and extended abstract (up to 800 words) to callforpapers@Key speakers
Giovanni Dosi (Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa)
Ralph Hertwig (Center for Adaptive Rationality (ARC) - Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin)
Ulrich Hoffrage (Université de Lausanne)
Laura Martignon (Ludwigsburg University)
A pool of referees of the Herbert Simon Society will review and evaluate the proposals (according to their relevance, originality and rigor).
Publication Opportunities: All accepted abstracts and full papers will be published in the conference proceedings available on the HSS website http://herbertsimonsociety.
High quality papers will be given the opportunity to be published in a special issue of Academic Journal “MIND & SOCIETY” edited by Springer
www.springer.com/economics/
