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Data Expansion and Decision Quality: A Laboratory Experiment
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General manager characteristics, demand forecast accuracy, and decision quality in new firms
… is increasingly important to business decision making. The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between general manager (GM) characteristic, demand forecast accuracy and decision quality in new firms. A framework is developed and posits that demand forecast accuracy …
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Joint Effects of Communication Mode and Consensus on Virtual Team Decision Quality
… the conditions and processes for effective decision-making in virtual team environments. Specifically, this study sought to demonstrate that teams instructed in consensus produce higher quality decisions and attain the assembly effect (synergy) on complex decision tasks. In addition, teams …
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MAKING GOOD DECISIONS: AN ATTRIBUTION MODEL OF DECISION QUALITY IN DECISION TASKS
<p>Decision-makers endeavor to obtain the decision quality which puts them in a position to reach their goals. In order to control or influence decision quality, the processes by which individuals form their beliefs must be understood. In addition, many decision makers rely on decision support …
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Enhancing Decision Quality Through Information Exposure and the Moderating Effects of Explicit Factors
… selective exposure is negatively correlated with decision quality and has demonstrated that when participants where steered into making a poor preliminary decision they made a worse final decision. However, the effect of free choice concerning the relationship between selective exposure and …
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The joint effects of group composition and instruction in consensus-seeking on decision quality
… on the group’s solution to a complex, multistage decision task. Comparisons of four performance measures among undergraduate student groups (N = 38) differing in composition (homogeneous vs. heterogeneous) and mode of consensual instruction (instructed vs. not instructed) were conducted through a …
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How do third-party evaluations of judgments affect decision quality on ill-structured problems? An interactive experiment
The student, Brent Garza, accepted the attached license on 2017-04-14 at 13:51.
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The effects of incentive structures and conflict management on perceived decision quality and the strength of consensus
… management strategies on consensus and perceived decision quality. Results showed group incentives encouraged collaborative conflict management while group incentives and collaborative conflict management both encouraged the perception of consensus and decision quality. At the same time individual …
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The effects of an expert on the small-group consensus process
… of an expert on strength of consensus and decision quality when the expert is a member of a consensus group. The purpose of this research is to help managers effectively use experts to increase decision quality without reducing consensus. If the expert gives the group relevant information, …
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Information quality assessment and effects on inventory decision-making
Information quality has become a critical concern to the success of organisations. Numerous business initiatives have been delayed or even cancelled, citing poor-quality information as the main reason. Previous research indicated that under-standing the effects of information quality is critical to …
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Predictive and prescriptive methods in operations research and machine learning : an optimization approach
… data have provided a substantial opportunity for decision makers to improve decisions and outcomes by effectively using this data. In this thesis, we propose approaches that start from data leading to high-quality decisions and predictions in various application areas. In the first chapter, we …
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The effects of meeting participation and outcome expectations on strength of consensus
… expectations on strength of consensus in a group decision-making situation. The combination of met expression-of-views expectations and met decision-quality expectations, along with their associated valences, had a significant effect on consensus (p = .01). Expression-of-views expectations are …
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Effects of Technological Support on Decision Making Performance of Distributed Groups
… data necessary to estimate the effects of decision support tools on the performance of distributed groups. Data was collected in a controlled experimental environment that simulated a geographically-dispersed meeting through the use of videoconferencing and group communication support …
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The effect of lessons-learned sharing processes for organizational learning on decision-making performance
… and evaluating the effects of the process on decision-making (i.e., management) performance. The research results provide tangible evidence about the effects of a lessons-learned sharing process to support organizational learning. A lessons-learned sharing process does improve decision-making …
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Contextual Effects in Tax Research: An Experimental Investigation of Adaptivity and Expert Performance in an Information Search Task
Based on a detailed analysis of the two tax decision-making contexts, planning and compliance, I predict that tax practitioners who know that the contexts differ in particular ways will conduct broader information search in planning than in compliance. I also predict that the nature of the decision …
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A Comparison of Three Group Decision-Making Strategies and Their Effects on the Group Decision-Making Process
… of this experiment was to compare three group decision-making strategies and their effects on the group decision-making process. Two of the strategies, Dialectical Inquiry and Devil's Advocacy, were structured while the control condition, Unstructured Consensus Seeking, was non-directed, thus …
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The value of information in shortest path optimization/
… an agent, that uses the information to make a decision. In traditional communication systems design, it is usually assumed that the agent uses the information to produce an estimate of the source, and that estimate is in turn used to make the decision. Consequently, the typical objective of …
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How Diversity Affects Teams
… for fostering innovation, creativity, and decision quality. However, team diversity does not naturally translate into better outcomes because social categorization can trigger dysfunctional subgrouping, potentially hindering the effective elaboration of diverse perspectives. Therefore, team …
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Toward an Integrative Study of Human-AI Interaction
… design space of possible configurations, making decisions that span algorithmic parameters, interface choice, and interaction protocols. This thesis develops an integrative approach that examines how design factors combine and interact to determine the outcomes of human-AI collaboration. Chapter …
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