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Mondani H, Holme P, Liljeros F (2014) Fat-Tailed
Fluctuations in the Size of Organizations: The Role of
Social In?uence. PLoS ONE 9(7): e100527.
Modeling the
fat tails of size
?uctuations in
organizations
Petter Holme
Mondani H, Holme P, Liljeros F (2014) Fat-Tailed
Fluctuations in the Size of Organizations: The Role of
Social In?uence. PLoS ONE 9(7): e100527.
Modeling the
fat tails of size
?uctuations in
organizations
Petter Holme
Local trade unions in Sweden, 1880¨C1939
-Long quiet periods
-Large jumps
F Liljeros, The complexity of social organizing, Ph.D. thesis 2001.
Typical data: time series of
sizes (not join / quit numbers)
Examples
Local trade unions in Sweden, 1880¨C1939
F Liljeros, The complexity of social organizing, Ph.D. thesis 2001.
Examples
Local trade unions in Sweden, 1880¨C1939
F Liljeros, The complexity of social organizing, Ph.D. thesis 2001.
Examples
Growth rate US ?rms
Buldyrev & al., J Phys I France 7 (1997), 635¨C650.
Examples
Growth rate Italian ?rms
Bottazzi, Secchi, Physica A 324 (2003), 213¨C219.
Examples
Examples
Growth rate Italian ?rms
Bottazzi, Secchi, Physica A 324 (2003), 213¨C219.
MHRStanley&al,1996Nature379:804¨C806.
Growthrate(someothersetof)US?rms
Examples
Universality
Previous models
Previous models
Economic models
Previous models
Economic models
Doesn¡¯t ?t e.g.
voluntary organizations
Physics models
Previous models
Physics models
Not without problems
either¡­
Previous models
Stochastic models
Previous models
Stochastic models
Previous models
Stochastic models
Original has log-
normal growth rate
distribution
Previous models
The SAF model
Assumptions
-N individuals connected in a network
-G organizations
-Each time step an agent changes
organization with probability:
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
The SAF model
Assumptions
-N individuals connected in a network
-G organizations
-Each time step an agent changes
organization with probability:
Claims the network is
the key (still trying
just one topology)...
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
The SAF model
Assumptions
-N individuals connected in a network
-G organizations
-Each time step an agent changes
organization with probability:
Claims the network is
the key (still trying
just one topology)...
Non-equilibrium...
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
The SAF model
Assumptions
-N individuals connected in a network
-G organizations
-Each time step an agent changes
organization with probability:
Claims the network is
the key (still trying
just one topology)...
Non-equilibrium...
Hidden parameters...
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
The SAF model
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
cf. threshold models (Prof. Kertesz¡¯s talk)
The SAF model
Schwartzkopf, Axtell, Farmer, arxiv:1004.5397.
cf. threshold models (Prof. Kertesz¡¯s talk)
Our extended SAF model
Additional assumptions
-Trying di?erent networks
-Organization cannot die (if the last person leaves
a new person joins)
-Attachment probability:
Results
Tent plot, ER model ¦Ä = 1.
Results
Tent plot, directed ER model ¦Ä = 1.
Results
Tent plot, scale-free networks, ¦Ä = 1.
Results
Tent plot, directed scale-free networks, ¦Ä = 1.
Results
2D grid, ¦Ä = 0
Results
2D grid, ¦Ä = 1
Results
2D grid, ¦Ä = 10
Conclusions
-The SAF model works and it is independent of the network
topology (it just needs a (strongly connected giant
component).
-The contextual in?uence parameter makes a di?erence and
can cause the loss of tentity.

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