2011/02/14 by Alessandro Pluchino, Andrea Rapisarda, Cesare Garofalo · 1 voice
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Physics and Astronomy · Social Sciences · #Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis #Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation #Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence #cs.SI #physics.soc-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1016/j.physa.2011.05.021
openalex publication_date 2011/06/05 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
The Peter principle has been recently investigated by means of an agent-based simulation and its validity has been numerically corroborated. It has been confirmed that, within certain conditions, it can really influence in a negative way the efficiency of a pyramidal organization adopting meritocratic promotions. It was also found that, in order to bypass these effects, alternative promotion strategies should be adopted, as for example a random selection choice. In this paper, within the same line of research, we study promotion strategies in a more realistic hierarchical and modular organization and we show the robustness of our previous results, extending their validity to a more general context. We discuss also why the adoption of these strategies could be useful for real organizations.