The Concept of Information Overload: A Review of Literature from Organization Science, Accounting, Marketing, MIS, and Related Disciplines

By Martin J. Eppler, Jeanne Mengis. The Information Society, 2004

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Competition for attention in the Information (overload) Age (2012, background): “The logistic function in (12) is sketched in Figure 1, for π = 20 and φ = 20 (the function asymptotes to N = 400, the maximal value of N/Θ̄ is attained at Θ̄ = 20, and the inßection point is at Θ̄ = 10).”
Why Do Individual Investors Disregard Accounting Information? The Roles of Information Awareness and Acquisition Costs (2018, positive): “The “information overload” literature finds that awareness and acquisition costs are material and have potentially increased in recent years (Eppler & Mengis 2004; Dyer et al. 2017; Chapman et al. 2017; Drake et al. 2017).”
Communicating Awareness and Intent in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction (2018, background): “Management-related work on the phenomenon of receiving too much information, or information overload [7], indicates that the decision-making performance of an individual improves with respect to the amount of information received up to a certain point.”
Is Busy Really Busy? Board Governance Revisited (2013, neutral): “ways (for an overview, see Eppler and Mengis (2004)) including inability to identify relevant data (Schneider, 1987), inordinate attention to irrelevant issues, overlooking large amounts of information, and “greater tolerance of error” (Sparrow, 1999: 144).”