Team-Soar: a computational model for multilevel decision making

Computational models which symbolically represent the abstraction of reality on computers, have won popularity as research tools in organizational studies. However, very few, if any computational models have been used to test theories in the same ways that human experiments generally do. The author introduces a simulation experiment using a computational model of team called "Team-Soar," which mimics a human team experiment that was performed to test a theory of team decision making. The results support the major propositions of the multilevel theory in the same fashion as the ones of the human team experiment. The simulation experiment displays the Team-Soar model\´s effectiveness as a theory prover