of e-mail in affecting task type, vertical and horizontal communication and their consequences for PDM. Finally the paper …This paper reviews the literature on the effects of the use of e-mail on direct participation in decision making (PDM …) in organisations. After a brief review of the organisational literature on participation the paper distinguishes e-mail …

We study the effects of communication in an experimental tournament between teams. When teams, rather than individuals … communication in such situations may have ambiguous effects on effort choices. Communication within teams may promote higher efforts … by mitigating the internal free-rider problem. Communication between competing teams may lead to collusion, thereby …

Abstract We examine the determinants of the dissent in central bank boards’ voting records about monetary policy rates … the attendant model uncertainty using Bayesian model averaging. We find that the rate of dissent is between 5% and 20% in …, are not robust determinants of voting dissent. The difference in central bankers’ preferences is likely to drive the …

offered by web-mediated communication may progressively lead a growing share of the population to adopt networking sites as an …

Internet increasingly serves not only to communication between it's users. The emergence of Web 2.0 platforms which are …

communication can be achieved, how such communication – as well as an effective system of communication, is vital to determining the …