Collective sensemaking for action: researchers and decision makers working collaboratively to strengthen health systems

Cheap Talk and Collective Decision-Making: Voting Rules and Informed Decision Makers

We investigate a cheap talk model with a collective decision making. In our model multiple decision makers vote on a proposal which determines their payoffs, and an expert tries to persuade them to choose the outcome she prefers. We allow decision makers to possess not all but some of information regarding the state of nature, which determines the gross utility of them based on the voting outco...

Involvement of Patients in Health Technology Assessment: Further Perspectives for Informing Decision-Makers

Health technology assessment (HTA) is an evaluative process used to inform technology-related policymaking in healthcare. Interest in involving patients in the HTA process is increasing. Patients can provide additional perspectives to those of other groups that are concerned with health technology. Information on patients’ perspectives is preferably obtained through reviews of published studies...

It Takes Two to Tango: Researchers and Decision-Makers Collaborating to Implement Practice Changes for Patients with Multimorbidity.

An integrated knowledge translation strategy is a key factor in fostering the implementation of practice changes. Building on a 15-year history of projects that include close collaboration between researchers and decision-makers in the Saguenay region of Quebec (Canada), the authors identify several key elements that resulted in practice changes in primary care and improved outcomes for patient...

Collective sensemaking in virtual teams

Virtual teams (VT) have been studied since two decades because of their increasing presence in today’s organizations. To better understand how VTs work, our research tries to address this issue by analysing interpretive frameworks through which students made sense of a VT experience as part of a course taught simultaneously in two distant universities. Using the concepts of sensemaking (Weick, ...

Electoral Systems and Their Goals: a Primer for Decision-makers