Abstract In decision making, people may rely on their own information as well from external sources, such family members, peers, or experts. The current study investigated how these types of are used by comparing four strategies: 1) an internal strategy that relies solely information; 2) the source; 3) a sequential source only after is deemed inadequate; 4) integrative integration both informat...

Abstract Research Summary Companies are increasingly opening up decision‐making, involving employees on all levels in distributed—and purportedly “hierarchy‐free”—decision processes. We examine how hierarchy reaches into such “democratized” systems, arguing that it is a source of homophily biases idea evaluation decisions. Using data set from internal crowdfunding at one the world's largest ind...