scholarly journals A Computational Analysis of Joint Decision Making Processes

2012 ◽  
pp. 292-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rob Duell ◽  
Jan Treur
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Computational Analysis ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes

Couple Decision Making

1989 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 291-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
DEBORAH D. GODWIN ◽  
JOHN SCANZONI
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Decision Dynamics

This study addresses the question of potential differences in the processes and outcomes of joint decision making in terms of the particular issue being negotiated by spouses, and the partner's behavior or assessment being examined. The proposition is tested and verified that decision-making processes vary by both spouse and the issue being discussed. Husbands' and wives' assessments of the outcomes of decision making do not differ within couples, but their assessments do vary across issues. A further proposition-that the importance of getting one's own way regarding the particular issue influences decision dynamics and outcomes-receives much less support. Future research should take into account emerging contemporary issues and avoid treating couple decision-making processes and outcomes as unidimensional. Further work on the reasons for observed differences across issues in couple decision making is needed.

Fritz W. Scharpf, “The Joint-Decision Trap: Lessons from German Federalism and European Integration”

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrienne Héritier
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Explanatory Power ◽  
Policy Outcomes ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Liberal Intergovernmentalism ◽  
Decision Making Processes ◽  
Definition Of

This chapter examines the joint decision trap (JDT), a decision-making mechanism developed in 1988 by Fritz Scharpf to show the link between higher level government’s decisions and the unanimous or consensus agreement of lower level governments. JDT explains how the interlinking of decision-making processes translates to suboptimal policy outcomes because higher level decisions can be blocked by each lower level actor. The chapter discusses how the concept and theory of JDT offer important insights into the dynamic of European decision-making, but by no means all of its aspects. It considers the definition of JDT and its important contribution to theoretical and empirical and research on European decision-making. It then evaluates some of the arguments against JDT and the limits of its explanatory power, as well as Scharpf’s alternative to the theoretical debate between (liberal) intergovernmentalism and neofunctionalism. The chapter concludes by assessing the continuing heuristic value of JDT.

Does participatory decision‐making in top management teams enhance decision effectiveness and firm performance?

2009 ◽  
Vol 38 (6) ◽  
pp. 696-714 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Carmeli ◽  
Zachary Sheaffer ◽  
Meyrav Yitzack Halevi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Firm Performance ◽  
Top Management Teams ◽  
Management Teams ◽  
Strategic Decision ◽  
Top Management ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Participatory Decision Making ◽  
Decision Making Processes

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine how participatory decision‐making processes in top management teams (TMT) influence strategic decision effectiveness and firm performance.Design/methodology/approachData from 94 TMTs are collected from structured surveys. Each firm's CEO provides data on strategic decision effectiveness, and a senior executive member of the TMT provided data on participatory decision‐making processes and firm performance.FindingsResults show that participatory decision‐making processes in the TMT are positively associated with decision effectiveness, but there is both a direct and an indirect relationship (through decision effectiveness) between participatory decision‐making processes and firm performance.Originality/valueThis paper sheds light on the importance of joint decision‐making processes among TMT members for improving choices and enhances firm performance.

scholarly journals Embodied Displays of “Doing Thinking.” Epistemic and Interactive Functions of Thinking Displays in Children's Argumentative Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vivien Heller
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Discursive Practice ◽  
Older Children ◽  
Collaborative Reasoning ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
Video Recordings ◽  
The Face ◽  
Decision Making Processes

This study investigates moments in which one participant in an interaction embodies that he is “doing thinking,” a display that is commonly referred to as “thinking face. ” From an interactional perspective, it is assumed that embodied displays of “doing thinking” are a recurring social practice and serve interactive functions. While previous studies have examined thinking faces primarily in word searches and storytelling, the present study focuses on argumentative activities, in which children engage in processes of joint decision-making. The paper has two interrelated aims. The first aim is to describe how multiple modalities—beyond the face—are temporally coordinated to create multimodal gestalts of “doing thinking.” It is shown that thinking displays not only involve dynamic imaginative gaze but also stylized bodily postures. The second aim is to generate knowledge about the functions of thinking displays in children's argumentative activities. The analysis describes how both speakers and recipients use thinking displays in different turn positions and align them with verbal talk or silence. The data for this study comprise video recordings of decision-making processes in groups of older children. Drawing on a multimodal approach to situated interaction, it will be proposed that embodied displays of “doing thinking” provide a resource to shape participation frameworks, mark epistemic stances and create epistemic ecologies for collaborative reasoning. By investigating thinking displays in a particular conversational activity, the study sheds light on the diversity and context-sensitive functionality of thinking displays. It also contributes to recent research on children's collaborative reasoning as an embodied discursive practice.

scholarly journals The Influence of Father and Mother's Joint Decision Making on Children's Basic Immunization:Empirical Research on Indonesia's Demographic and Health Survey 2017

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 234-256
Author(s):  
Jondan Indhy Prastyo
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Health Survey ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Demographic And Health Survey ◽  
Medical Professionals ◽  
Early Age ◽  
Vaccine Preventable Disease ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
Completion Status ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The 2017 diphtheria outbreaks in Indonesia shows the downside of inadequate immunization for certain group that could endanger public health. Despite years of government intervention on this vaccine-preventable disease, insofar mandating basic vaccination for children from an early age, ultimately, it is parents that will decide on having their children being immunized. Utilizing the 2017 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey, this study aims to uncover the association between parents' decision-making processes and their demographic variables to their children's immunization completion status. Logistic regression suggests discussion between parents in household's major purchases, more likely to result in complete basic immunization for their children. Additionally, mothers' traits, which are education, frequency of access to mass media, and exposure to medical professionals, are positively associated with compliance with basic vaccines administration. Differences in compliance can also be observed in children's gender and order of birth.

scholarly journals Conflict Transformation through Prior Consultation? Lessons from Peru

2015 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 811-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
ALMUT SCHILLING-VACAFLOR ◽  
RICCARDA FLEMMER
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Conflict Transformation ◽  
Participatory Governance ◽  
Joint Decision ◽  
State Institutions ◽  
Normative Framework ◽  
Power Asymmetries ◽  
Decision Making Processes

AbstractThis article analyses the background to and the content of the Peruvian prior consultation law – the only one enacted in Latin America to date – and its regulating decree. In contrast to the widespread conception that prior consultation is a means for preventing and resolving conflict, it argues that this new legislation will not help to transform conflicts as long as the normative framework itself is contested and the preconditions for participatory governance are not in place. Establishing these preconditions would result in state institutions capable of justly balancing the diverse interests at stake; measures that reduce power asymmetries within consultations; and joint decision-making processes with binding agreements.

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