From Gaussian to Paretian Thinking: Causes and Implications of Power Laws in Organizations
Although normal distributions and related current quantitative methods are still relevant for some organizational research, the growing ubiquity of power laws signifies that Pareto rank/frequency distributions, fractals, and underlying scale-free theories are increasingly pervasive and valid charact...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Organization Science. - Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. - 20(2009), 6, Seite 1053-1071 |
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| Sprache: | English |
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2009
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Organization Science |
| Schlagworte: | Pareto power law Gaussian statistics organization average extreme events scale-free theory Mathematics Applied sciences Linguistics |
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