“…The relevance and value of ABM for the study of social, business and economic systems and networks is now being increasingly recognized (e.g., Altiparmak, Gen, Lin, & Paksoy, 2006;Baldwin, 2011;Chen, Ong, Tan, Zhang, & Li, 2013;Earnest & Wilkinson, 2017;Farmer & Foley, 2009;Garcia & Jager, 2010;Held, Wilkinson, Marks, & Young, 2014;Labarthe, Espinasse, Ferrarini, & Montreuil, 2007;Rand & Rust, 2011;Seibel & Kellam, 2003;Yang & Chandra, 2013), there are special issues of business journals devoted to the topic (e.g. D'Alessandro & Winzar, 2014; Garcia & Jager, 2010Garcia and Jager, 2010D'Alessandro & Winzar, 2014;Garcia & Jager, 2010;Gilbert, Jager, Deffuant, & Adjali, 2007) and a specialized journal Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Systems.…”