Searching together versus searching apart: Evidence from Kaggle

Deskripsi

How does the mode of search independently or jointly affect collective search, a central component of organizational adaptation and innovation? Using naturally occurring data froma strongly incentivized online competition platform, we find that compared to their counter factuals that search apart, groups searching together exhibit less exploration in their search outcomes as noted in prior experimental and computation al modelling studies. However, groups searching to get her stimulate agreater number of search attempts from their members than groups searching apart, an effect that as so far remained unnoticed. Fur ther, both search attempts and exploration contribute positively to search performance. This suggests at the choice of search mode should depend on the demands of strategic contexts that make either the variety or volume of solutions relatively more important for collective search.