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Committee Decision Making in Organizations: An Experimental Test of the Core
Author(s) -
Steckel Joel H.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
decision sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.238
H-Index - 108
eISSN - 1540-5915
pISSN - 0011-7315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1990.tb00325.x
Subject(s) - core (optical fiber) , contest , outcome (game theory) , set (abstract data type) , computer science , voting , test (biology) , operations research , external validity , majority rule , binary number , management science , microeconomics , artificial intelligence , psychology , social psychology , economics , political science , mathematics , law , telecommunications , paleontology , programming language , arithmetic , politics , biology
One concept that has been widely supported in experiments on predicting the outcome of majority‐rule voting committees is the Core, the set of alternatives that cannot be defeated by any other in a binary contest. Unfortunately, the applicability of these experiments to organizations is limited by a set of rigid controls intended to ensure that the experiments are internally valid. This paper tests the Core in a laboratory environment that relaxes these controls. The Core is found to be highly predictive under these relaxed conditions, thereby enhancing confidence in its external validity.