OLSON, Bradley J. <br/><br/>
Strategic decidion making :  the effects of cognitive diversity, conflict, and trust on decision outcomes 

 - London, UK :  Sage Publications,  April 2007 
<br/><br/> Basing their hypotheses on information processing theory, the authors incorporate important group processes within strategic decision making. They examine the interrelationships of cognitive diversity, task conflict, and competence-based trust and their effects on decision outcomes. Their survey includes top management teams from 85 U.S. hospitals. They found that cognitive diversity has a strong positive relationship with task conflict and that competence-based trust strengthens this relationship. In addition, these results suggest that task conflict mediates the effects of cognitive diversity on decision outcomes