We study a model of collective decision making with endogenous information collection.Agents collect information about … decision is made. The reason for this result is that communicationmay aggravate the free-rider problem associated with …

This paper provides experimental evidence showing that indirectreciprocity may important in economic decision making … and in thedevelopment of group norms. We study a `repeated helping game' withrandom pairing in large groups, with … against a certain cost or not tohelp, enduring no costs. We observe that many decision makers respondto the information we …

While most papers_new on team decision-making find teams to behave more selfish, less trusting and less altruistic than … dictator game. In our experiment teams are more selfish than individuals, and the most selfish team member has the strongest … individuals, Cason and Mui (1997) report that teams are more altruistic than individuals in a dictator game. Using a within …

What is the effect of dispersed levels of cognitive ability of members of a (business) team on their teamś performance … complex decision making. The key result of the experiment is that the performance of business teams first increases and then … to teams based on their measured cognitive abilities (Raven test). Each team performs a variety of tasks, often involving …

The performance of a work team commonly depends on the effort exerted by the team members as well as on the division of … tasks among them. However, when leaders assign tasks to team members, performance is usually not the only consideration … the effects of such team incentives on task assignment and performance. We introduce team incentives in a random subsets …

the decision-making mechanisms make all use of adaptations of well-established approaches for the analysis of power in non … ascribe positional power to actors in sequential decision making mechanisms. …Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organisations. In this paper we consider positional power in …

positional power to actors in sequential decision making mechanisms. In this paper we provide axiomatizations of this power score … and power measure for one of the most studied decision models, namely that of binary voting. …Power is a core concept in the analysis and design of organizations. One of the problems with the extant literature on …