Search Results - subject:"Team decision‐making"

Measuring Politically-relevant Identity, With and Without Groups

Marquardt, Kyle M. - 2021

Quantitative scholarship on civil conﬂict still largely relies upon the ethnic group as the foundation for measures of politically-relevant diversity and, in particular, identity-based political inclusion. However, ethnicity remains notoriously diﬃcult to measure: even cutting-edge analyses...

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Polarization and Group Cooperation

Robbett, Andrea; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2021

Does increased partisanship undermine the ability of politically heterogeneous groups to function and cooperate in apolitical settings? On the eve of the 2020 U.S. elections, we conducted an online experiment in which Democrats and Republicans played repeated public goods games, both with and...

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Fair and efficient collective decisions via nondeterministic proportional consensus

Heitzig, Jobst; Simmons, Forest W. - 2021

Are there collective decision methods which (i) give everyone, including minorities, an equal share of effective power even if voters act strategically, (ii) promote consensus and equality, rather than polarization and inequality, and (iii) do not favour the status quo or rely too much on...

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The Intrinsic Value of Decision Rights : A Note on Team vs Individual Decision-Making

Buffat, Justin; Praxmarer, Matthias; Sutter, Matthias - 2021

Team decision-making prevails in modern organizations. Teams often need to decide whether to delegate or make a … reaching a decision have very high intrinsic values of decision rights, thus distorting decisions. Hence, the team decision … making process is of significant importance for the decision-making quality in organizations …

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The Effect of Group Identity on Hiring Decisions With Incomplete Information

Casoria, Fortuna; Reuben, Ernesto; Rott, Christina - 2021

We investigate the effects of group identity on hiring decisions with adverse selection problems. We run a laboratory experiment in which employers cannot observe a worker's ability nor verify the veracity of the ability the worker claims to have. We evaluate whether sharing an identity results...

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Ideological Motives and Group Decision-Making

Engl, Florian - 2021

This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape group decision-making outcomes. Groups repeatedly decide between a monetarily preferred outcome that generates a high payoff but also an ideologically undesirable externality, or an ideologically preferred outcome that...

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Responsible Majorities? How Group Composition Drives Partisan Expressive Voting

Robbett, Andrea; Matthews, Peter Hans - 2021

Individuals sometimes do not ``vote their beliefs" but rather to affirm their partisan affiliation. We design an experiment to determine the conditions under which voters engage in partisan expressive voting. Democrats and Republicans are asked to vote on the answers to factual questions about...

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Collective Decision Through an Intermediary

Li, Yunan; Zhang, Xingtan - 2021

An intermediary must make a decision on behalf of a group of agents, who are privately informed about their valuations attached to decisions. Examples include the government acting as an intermediary in the provision of public goods. We show that an imperfectly informed intermediary can help...

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The role of four life-story aspects in a collaborative decision-making process in the field of leadership development

Loci, Sokol; Peterlin, Judita - In: Economic and business review : EBR 23 (2021) 1, pp. 40-54

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On the emergence of consensus or conflicting social norms

Block, Juan I.; Dutta, Rohan; Levine, David K. - 2021

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