Organisational Learning and Usage of Mental Models for a Team of Match Officials: A Second-Order Adaptive Network Model

This chapter describes a multi-level adaptive network model for mental processes making use of shared mental models in the context of organisational learning in team-related performances. The chapter describes the value of using shared mental models to illustrate the concept of organisational learning, and factors that influence team performances by using the analogy of a team of match officials during a game of football and show their behavior in a simulation of the shared mental model. The chapter discusses potential elaborations of the different studied concepts, as well as implications of the research in the domain of teamwork and team performance, and in terms of organisational learning.