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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"group decisions"”.
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Understanding Preference Revision and Concession in Group Decisions
Many purchase decisions involve groups of individuals. In marketing literature, a majority of the studies related to group decisions place greater emphasis on predicting the outcome of the decision than the process. In this dissertation, I contend that understanding the process by which a purchase …
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A comparison of individual and group decisions involving risk
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, School of Industrial Management, 1961.
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The effect of general values on cautious and risky shifts in group decisions.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Alfred P. Sloan School of Management. Thesis. 1967. Ph.D.
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Improving Group Decision Making with Collaborative Brain-Computer Interfaces
Groups are generally superior to individuals in making decisions. However, time constraints and authoritarian leaders could nullify the potential advantages provided by groups. This thesis proposes a hybrid collaborative Brain-Computer Interface (cBCI) for improving performance in group …
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Group representation learning for group recommendation
Group recommender systems facilitate group decision making for a set of individuals (e.g., a group of friends, a team, a corporation, etc.). Existing group recommendation methods mostly learn group members' individual preferences and then aggregate them into a group preference. This thesis takes a …
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Effects of two procedural factors on group decision-making: Deliberation style and assigned decision rule
"Many important decision making groups in our society are guided, formally or informally, by a variety of procedures that serve to facilitate the consensus process (e.g., quorum rules, voting procedures, fixed agenda). Despite abundant anecdotes concerning the procedural effects on group decisions …
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Conformity and confirmation: group decision-making in foreign policy
… do not make history-altering foreign policy decisions on their own. They evaluate options and set foreign policy in consultation with small groups of experts and advisors. In this dissertation, I explore the effects that groups of advisors have on foreign policy decision-making. We lack …
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Group decision making in a prototype engineering system : the Federal Open Market Committee
All ES evolve as the result of stakeholder decisions and decision processes that affect their design and operation. These decision making problems often involve many stakeholders, each of whom have a say in the outcome. This has been termed a lateral alignment problem, as opposed to a unitary …
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Elicitation Mode Effects on Group Decision-Making in a Step-Level Public Good Social Dilemma
Research in group decision making has long been divided along the lines of categorical, e.g., a guilty versus not-guilty verdict as in a criminal trial, versus continuous decisions, e.g., a monetary budget allocation. The possibility that groups may share the same processes when making these two …
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Interest group analysis of electoral college reform.
… study is the identification of national pressure groups which have formulated group policies with regard to either the maintenance or reform of the electoral college system. After categorizing the groups in terms of their preference for the present electoral college or one of the four basic plans …
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Information, Influence and Technology in Group Decision-Making
… the relation between information pooling and group decision making has suggested a disturbing conclusion: that group members fail to pool uniquely held information, leading to suboptimal group decisions. Instead, group members tend to discuss information with which they are all already …
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A comparison of the small group decision-making techniques of majority vote and consensus.
… with the matter of decision-making within groups, but little attention has been paid to the actual process used in reaching decisions. This study proposed to fill this gap by examining the two processes of majority vote and consensus. Eighty subjects were divided into nine groups of …
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Parole Bureaucracy: The Decision Making Process of Paroling Authorities
… on the facts of each case. Thus, hearing decisions are not routine or automatic. Furthermore, it became evident that even though Board members' hearing decisions are group decisions, members do not blindly sign the decision sheet without carefully perusing the circumstances surrounding …
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TaskLight: A Groupware System to Facilitate Requesting and Managing Help in Teams
… writing, getting approvals, and making group decisions. We derive insights via a user study from our first deployed version of TaskLight and use it as a stepping stone for future direction of work.
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Decision Making of Building Level Administrators and Their Perceptions on Groupthink
<p>This research study examined how groupthink affects educational decision making for building level administrators by identifying the most prominent symptoms of groupthink and by exposing the characteristics that create an increase of vulnerability to groupthink.</p><p>Participants for this study …
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An examination of coordination among friends and strangers from a coordination theory perspective
… complex collaboration between individuals and groups. Outeraction is primarily conducted through the interpersonal communication channels of texting, instant messaging (IM), face-to-face, and mobile phone or Skype conversations. Currently this area of research in mobile outeraction support …
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Deciding to Fight: A Cross-Cultural Comparative Study on Decision-Making in Conflict Situations
… in the U.S. and Ghana. A comparison between the groups shows the constraining impact of culture at three levels: individual, societal, and situated. At an individual level, those who are more collectivist are more dependent in their decision-making. At a societal level, students from a …
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Bridging the gender gap: factors enabling female directors to affect the appointment of female CEOs
… status may constrain their ability to affect group decisions, I supplement social identity theory with critical mass theory to argue that increasing the number of female directors beyond a certain point will empower them to become more influential in CEO appointment decisions, and this …
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CollaboRanger: Coordinating Differences of Individuals in Group Coordination
… transition from the personal working sphere to group coordination. Through our workshop study with 11 knowledge workers including program coordinators and admins, we understand how they manage the gap between personal differences and lead to group coordination. Our finding indicates that even …
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Three Essays on Dynamic Corporate Finance in Continuous Time
… theory. In the first essay, we study dynamic group decisions by examining how heterogeneity in risk preferences of decision-makers influences the joint dynamic of financial policies. Each member receives a non-tradable claim that reflects her risk preference. Claims are convex, S-shaped and …
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