Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity
Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand the relationship between human resource management practices...
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| author | Siebers, Peer-Olaf Aickelin, Uwe Celia, Helen Clegg, Christopher |
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| description | Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand the relationship between human resource management practices and retail productivity. Despite the fact we are working within a relatively novel and complex domain, it is clear that intelligent agents could offer potential for fostering sustainable organizational capabilities in the future. The project is still at an early stage. So far we have conducted a case study in a UK department store to collect data and capture impressions about operations and actors within departments. Furthermore, based on our case study we have built and tested our first version of a retail branch simulator which we will present in this paper. |
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| spelling | nottingham-5882020-05-04T20:29:11Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/588/ Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity Siebers, Peer-Olaf Aickelin, Uwe Celia, Helen Clegg, Christopher Intelligent agents offer a new and exciting way of understanding the world of work. In this paper we apply agent-based modeling and simulation to investigate a set of problems in a retail context. Specifically, we are working to understand the relationship between human resource management practices and retail productivity. Despite the fact we are working within a relatively novel and complex domain, it is clear that intelligent agents could offer potential for fostering sustainable organizational capabilities in the future. The project is still at an early stage. So far we have conducted a case study in a UK department store to collect data and capture impressions about operations and actors within departments. Furthermore, based on our case study we have built and tested our first version of a retail branch simulator which we will present in this paper. 2007 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed Siebers, Peer-Olaf, Aickelin, Uwe, Celia, Helen and Clegg, Christopher (2007) Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity. In: Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference (WSC 2007), Washington, USA. |
| spellingShingle | Siebers, Peer-Olaf Aickelin, Uwe Celia, Helen Clegg, Christopher Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title | Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title_full | Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title_fullStr | Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title_full_unstemmed | Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title_short | Using Intelligent Agents to Understand Management Practices and Retail Productivity |
| title_sort | using intelligent agents to understand management practices and retail productivity |
| url | https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/588/ |