
handle: 10278/31016
We consider a team of agents with limited problem-solving ability facing a disjunctive task over a large solution space. We provide sufficient conditions for the following four statements. First, two heads are better than one: a team of two agents will solve the problem even if neither agent alone would be able to. Second, teaming up does not guarantee success: if the agents are not sufficiently creative, even a team of arbitrary size may fail to solve the problem. Third, defendit numerus: when the agent's problem-solving ability is adversely affected by the complexity of the solution space, the solution of the problem requires only a mild increase in the size of the team. Fourth, groupthink impairs the power of diversity: if agents' abilities are positively correlated, a larger team is necessary to solve the problem. This paper was accepted by Teck Ho, decision analysis.
Problem-solving; Bounded rationality; Theory of teams; Groupthink., problem solving, bounded rationality, theory of teams, groupthink, problem-solving, bounded rationality, theory of teams, groupthink, Problem-solving; Bounded rationality; Theory of teams; Groupthink, jel: jel:D71, jel: jel:D23, jel: jel:C65
Problem-solving; Bounded rationality; Theory of teams; Groupthink., problem solving, bounded rationality, theory of teams, groupthink, problem-solving, bounded rationality, theory of teams, groupthink, Problem-solving; Bounded rationality; Theory of teams; Groupthink, jel: jel:D71, jel: jel:D23, jel: jel:C65
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