Decision Making in Cross‐Functional Teams: The Role of Decision Power*
通过博弈论模型，研究跨职能团队中的决策机制，发现企业可通过调整成员资历、赋予否决权或引入监督者来影响团队决策结果，对优化团队决策流程有指导意义。
ABSTRACT Through a series of game‐theoretical models, this study systematically examines decision making in cross‐functional teams. It provides a framework for the design of an organization‐specific decision‐making process and for the alignment of a team's microdecision with the “optimal” decision that maximizes the firm's payoff. This study finds that even without changing the team leader, firms could change and even dictate the team's microdecision outcome via adjusting the team member's seniority, empowering team members with veto power or involving a supervisor as a threat to overrule the team decision. This finding implies that to reposition products in the marketplace, structuring cross‐functional teams’ microdecision‐making processes is essential.