Although there is extensive evidence that past performance influences the propensity to make changes, research on how decision makers respond to diverging performance measures has been sparse. This paper addresses this gap in an experimental and a field study in which we examine how decision makers respond to the ambiguity introduced by two diverging performance indicators of unequal importance...

BACKGROUND The decision to start long-term tube-feeding in elderly people is complex. The process by which such decisions are made is not well understood. The authors examined the factors involved in the decision to start long-term tube-feeding in cognitively impaired older people from the perspective of the substitute decision-maker. METHODS A telephone survey was administered to the substit...

This paper presents a new method for multiple person multiple attribute decision making (MADM) based on decision makers' subjective preference information on alternatives and objective decision matrix. In this method, multiple decision makers give their preference information on the alternatives in different formats, and an optimization model is constructed to reflect both decision makers' subj...

We consider multiple criteria decision-making problems where a group of decision-makers wants to find the most preferred solution from a discrete set of alternatives. We develop a method that uses achievement scalarizing functions for charting subsets of reference points that would support a certain alternative to be the most preferred one. The resulting descriptive information is provided to t...

 This paper investigates the effect of decision-makers’ culture on their implicit choice of how to make decisions. In a content analysis of major decisions described in American and Chinese twentieth-century novels, we test a series of hypotheses based on prior theoretical and empirical investigations of cross-cultural variation in human motivation and decision processes. The data show ...

Felix Köbler, Jens Fähling, Helmut Krcmar, Jan Marco Leimeister IT Governance and Types of IT DecisionMakers in German Hospitals An Empirical Study Among IT Decision Makers Growing expenses for health care services in hospitals stress the potential of a well applied IT governance for cost reduction, productivity gains and a possible source for competitive advantages. The underlying explorative ...

This paper investigates the multiple attribute decision making problem with preference information on alternatives, in which multiple decision makers give their preference information in three forms, i.e., preference orderings, utility values and fuzzy preference relation. A new approach is presented to make use of both the decision makers' social fuzzy preference relation on alternatives and d...

This paper presents fuzzy goal programming approach for solving multilevel programming problems with fuzzy parameters. The proposed approach is based on ? -cut and fuzzy goal programming. In the proposed approach, the tolerance membership functions for the fuzzily described objective functions are defined by determining individual best solution of the objective function of every decision maker....