Month: February 2016

Diversity in command

Corporate Boards that tap into a diversity of sources for information can be expected to make better decisions. Diversity in a team and a board can, however, also impede team performance, recent work we presented in Management Decision points out. Measuring the diversity of boards in four different ways, two of which are person-related (age …

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Democratic decision making? When online platforms matter (and do not matter)

Based on our experience working with 30 companies in the United States and Europe, we recently concluded that some, but not all, types of decisions benefit from democratization. Enabled by enterprise social software (ESS), online corporate communities are shaking up the management world by revolutionizing many core organizational activities. Indeed, by creating new channels of …

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