ABSTRACT
This chapter integrates the account of information exchange in a decisionmaking team offered in previous chapters and investigates dynamics of the system. In Part A of this chapter, microprocessing in the information exchange of a team’s decision making as put forth in previous chapters is reviewed. As in these chapters, implications of the dual motives of agents that underlie information initiation in an interactive team are first received. The accounts of microprocessing and dynamics of information types are then integrated into a system. The system is used to give a form to heterogeneity in team membership as a trade-off between process gains through decreased overlap in the idea pool of the team and process losses through increases in the variance of the status distribution. In Part B of the chapter, the effects of member heterogeneity on process gains and losses in decision making is investigated in numerical exercises that apply to the integrated system.
