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Teams contribute more and punish less : conference paper

Auerswald, Heike; Schmidt, Carsten; Thum, Marcel; … - 2014 - This version: 24 March 2014

Many decisions in politics and business are made by teams rather than by single individuals. In contrast, economic models typically assume an individual rational decision maker. A rapidly growing body of (experimental) literature investigates team decisions in different settings. We study team...

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Trust in risk management : uncertainty and scepticism in the public mind

Siegrist, Michael (contributor) - 2010

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Decision support : an examination of the DSS discipline

Schuff, David (contributor); Paradice, David B. (contributor) - 2011

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Management impact in an experimental intergroup contest : conference paper

Eisenkopf, Gerald - 2013 - Preliminary draft

The paper presents experimental evidence on the impact of managers and their incentives on the behavior of group members in intergroup contests. I find that members follow the nonbinding investment recommendations of their group manager in particular if the managers payoff does not depend on the...

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Preference intensities in repeated collective decision-making : conference paper

Drexl, Moritz; Kleiner, Andreas - 2013

We study decision rules for committees that repeatedly take a binary decision. Committee members are privately informed about their payoffs and monetary transfers are not feasible. In static environments, the only strategy-proof mechanisms are voting rules which are criticized for being...

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Why voting? : a welfare analysis ; conference paper

Drexl, Moritz; Kleiner, Andreas - 2013 - This version: July 2013

Which decision rule should we use to make a binary collective choice? While voting procedures are applied ubiquitously, they are criticized for being inefficient. Using monetary transfers, efficient choices can be made at the cost of a budget imbalance. Is it optimal to do so? And why are...

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Endogenous social identity and group choice : conference paper

Hett, Florian; Kröll, Markus; Mechtel, Mario - 2014

This paper tests social identity theory with respect to individuals' self-identification behavior. We report results from a laboratory experiment in which subjects choose their group membership, which is interpreted as decision to identify with the respective group. Inducing a trade-off between...

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How transparency kills information aggregation : (and why that may be a good thing) ; conference paper

Fehrler, Sebastian; Hughes, Niall - 2014

We show theoretical and experimental results that demonstrate the potential of transparency to influence committee decision making and deliberation. We present a model in which committee members have career concerns and unanimity is needed to change the status quo. We study three scenarios -...

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Time in groups

Blount, Sally (contributor) - 2004 - 1. ed

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Toward phenomenology of groups and group membership

Sondak, Harris (contributor) - 2002

sense that they belong to one or another group; groups' orientations toward learning, pacing, and time; and familiarity … interactions : fieldwork on the phenomenology of groups in organizations / Andrew B. Hargadon -- Why some teams emphasize learning …; groups' orientations toward learning, pacing, and time; and familiarity, trust, perspective taking, and intergroup relations …

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