Is Diversity (Un-)Biased? Project Selection Decisions in Executive Committees

Executive rank , pay and project selection

This paper extends the literature on executive compensation by developing and testing a principal-agent model in the context of project selection. The model’s focus on executive project selection decisions highlights the multidimensional nature of executive choices that affect the value of the firm. An executive not only makes an effort choice that determines the quality of information on which...

Two DEA Models Employment in IS Project Selection for Iran Ministry of Commerce

Selection of an appropriate set of Information System (IS) projects is a critical business activity which is very helpful to all organizations. In this paper, after describing real IS project selection problem of Iran Ministry of Commerce (MOC), we introduce two Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models. Then, we show applicability of introduced models for identifying most efficient IS project fro...

Stochastic Attribute Selection Committees

Classi er committee learning methods generate multiple classi ers to form a committee by repeated application of a single base learning algorithm. The committee members vote to decide the nal classication. Two such methods, Bagging and Boosting, have shown great success with decision tree learning. They create di erent classi ers by modifying the distribution of the training set. This paper stu...

CGIAR GENDER AND DIVERSITY PROGRAM EXECUTIVE SELECTION IN THE CGIAR Implications for Gender and Diversity

Information Aggregation and Equilibrium Selection in Committees