Description du projet
Nouvelles stratégies en matière de prise de décision, d’allocation de l’attention et d’innovation
Les organisations contemporaines sont confrontées à trois défis interdépendants: éviter les erreurs catastrophiques, répartir efficacement l’attention et encourager l’innovation. Dans cette optique, le projet BLINDSPOT, financé par le CER, se concentrera sur la détection des erreurs, l’allocation de l’attention et la reconnaissance de l’innovation. Son objectif est de développer une approche sociologique globale pour étudier les défis cognitifs auxquels sont confrontées les organisations. Le projet vise à mettre en évidence l’impact de la diversité sur les performances, pour finalement éclairer la manière dont les organisations peuvent surmonter ces obstacles cognitifs complexes. L’équipe examinera plus précisément comment la diversité ethnique et de genre peut perturber le comportement grégaire et faire chuter les bulles de prix (déflation). Les chercheurs évalueront également la synchronisation, l’intensité et la diversité des réseaux d’attention et leur impact sur la correction des erreurs et la précision de la prédiction.
Objectif
Contemporary organizations face three interrelated, but analytically distinguishable, challenges. First, they should be alert to mistakes that could be catastrophic. Second, they need to allocate attention, especially to correct past mistakes and to make accurate predictions about future developments. Third, they should be innovative, able to stand out from existing categories while being recognized as outstanding. This project investigates these cognitive challenges with the aim of developing a comprehensive sociological approach to study the social properties of cognition. Research on error detection, attention allocation, and recognizant innovation will be conducted in three distinct settings strategically chosen so the scale and complexity of the performance challenges increases across the cases. The research question that cuts across the socio-cognitive challenges asks whether and how diversity contributes to performance. 1) We first test whether social context, understood at the most basic level as the composition of a small collectivity, affects the cognitive activity of pricing. To do so, I use experimental market methods to test whether ethnic and gender diversity deflate price bubbles by disrupting herding behaviour. 2) The second study tests how the social structure of attention affects valuation. The activities involve error correction and accuracy of prediction in estimates by securities analysts; the method is two-mode network analysis; and the timing, intensity, and diversity of attention networks are the effects to be tested. 3) Whereas my first two tests examine relations among competitors, my third examines relations within and across collaborative teams. In studying the network properties of creativity, the challenge is recognizant innovation, the activity involves recording sessions in the field of music, the method is cultural network analysis, and the effects to be tested are the combined effects of stylistic diversity and social structure.
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ERC-ADG - Advanced GrantInstitution d’accueil
CV4 8UW COVENTRY
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