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Point de vue: Prise de décision en comit é.
Author(s) -
Hao Li,
Suen Wing
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
canadian journal of economics/revue canadienne d'économique
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1540-5982
pISSN - 0008-4085
DOI - 10.1111/j.1540-5982.2009.01512.x
Subject(s) - incentive , voting , information aggregation , process (computing) , perfect information , imperfect , focus (optics) , quality (philosophy) , decision making , business decision mapping , computer science , operations research , management science , business , political science , decision support system , economics , engineering , data mining , marketing , law , microeconomics , philosophy , politics , linguistics , physics , optics , epistemology , purchasing , operating system
This article reviews recent developments in the theory of committee decision‐making. A committee consists of self‐interested members who make a public decision by aggregating imperfect information dispersed among them according to a pre‐specified decision rule. We focus on costly information acquisition, strategic information aggregation, and rules and processes that enhance the quality of the committee decision. Seeming inefficiencies of the committee decision‐making process such as over‐cautiousness, voting, and delay emerge as partial remedies to these incentive problems.