Complexity and Stability in Contexts of Joint Decision-Making. An Experimental Study
Tanja Pritzlaff · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2009
The growing awareness and recognition of interdependence between issues, objectives and policies, both within and between countries, is tied to an increasing complexity of collective problem-solving and joint decision-making. But although sophisticated technological tools and innovations seem to provide an adequate answer to the growing complexity and scope of joint decision interactions, actual decision interactions, even on the transnational level, for the most part still rely on face-to-face meetings. Apparently, face-to-face communication between agents involved in joint decisions is still looked upon as being the most reliable and effective tool compared to other forms of problem-solving interaction. Certain features inherent in face-to-face communication seem to function as elements of uniformity and stability across time and space. This finding is also supported by the fact that efforts to replace face-to-face deci-sion communication with technically mediated forms of interaction or to recreate practices of joint decision-making using artificial intelligent systems have failed time and again.