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Purpose – This paper develops a discussion leading on from a paper relating the influence of board committees combined with board structure/composition and remuneration and corporate governance on the financial performance of a public listed corporation.Design/methodology/approach – This...
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goods typically assume a single rational decision-maker. We use a laboratory experiment to compare team decisions to … contribute more to the public good than individuals. With a punishment option subsequently to the contribution decision team …. Extreme preferences for punishment are eliminated by the majority decision rule. Overall, team decisions are closer to the …
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We report results from a laboratory experiment that explores the effects of preference communication and leader selection mechanisms in group decision-making. In a setting where all members of a group get the same payoff based on the group leader's decision of how much risk to take, we study the...
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We study the choice of a principal to either delegate a decision to a group of careerist experts, or to consult them individually and keep the decision-making power. Our model predicts a trade-off between information acquisition and information aggregation. On the one hand, the expected benefit...
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This paper studies experimentally when and how ideological motives shape outcomes in group decision-making scenarios. Groups play a repeated coordination game in which they can agree on a payoff-dominant or a payoff-dominated but ideologically preferred outcome, or disagree and forego all...
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This paper provides strong evidence supporting the long-standing speculation that decision-making in groups has a dark side, by magnifying the prevalence of anti-social behavior towards outsiders. A large-scale experiment implemented in Slovakia and Uganda (N=2,309) reveals that deciding in a...
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