CCE Faculty Articles
A Question of Timing: The Impact of Information Acquisition on Group Decision Making
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Information Resources Management Journal
ISSN
1040-1628
Publication Date
2005
Abstract
Information acquisition and its use frequently are considered critical to the decision-making process, yet related research, especially about the timing of information acquisition, is limited. Our research explores the impact of information acquisition on perceived decision quality and on the time required to reach a decision on a fuzzy task. We found that more information was accessed from a Web-based system in the first part of the group decision-making process, when the decision environment was searched and possible courses of action were analyzed. We also found that the proportion of information accessed in the first part of the meeting was related significantly to the time required to make the decision. More specifically, when most information was accessed in the first part of the decision-making session, the relationship between decision time and amount of information accessed in the early part of the meeting was positive and linear. However, a curvilinear relationship was found between decision time and amount of information accessed in the latter part of the decision-making session. Unlike the findings of a previous study, this earlier access of information is not associated with improved perceived decision quality.
DOI
10.4018/irmj.2005100105
Volume
18
Issue
4
First Page
81
Last Page
100
NSUWorks Citation
Paul, Souren; Saunders, Carol Stoak; and Haseman, William David, "A Question of Timing: The Impact of Information Acquisition on Group Decision Making" (2005). CCE Faculty Articles. 374.
https://nsuworks.nova.edu/gscis_facarticles/374
