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The study aims to explore how context and task variables affect information system choices in a competitive environment.

Information Evaluation in a Competitive Environment: Context and Task Effects.

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Experiment evaluates information system choices in a competitive context, highlighting misperceptions and effects of presentation modes.

The study aims to explore how context and task variables affect information system choices in a competitive environment.
Conducted an experiment with subjects simulating division managers in a competitive firm setting.
Investigated subjective information system choices under different contexts and task conditions.
Analyzed misvaluation patterns of information and conformity to a game-theoretic model.
Subjects frequently overvalued information more than they undervalued it, indicating misperception in evaluation.
Choices varied under conditions of state uncertainty compared to scenarios with equivalent payoffs.
Different presentation modes for information costs led to varying choices across contexts, despite no aggregate effect.

William N. Dilla (1989) studied this question.

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