Exploring modes of facilitative support for GDSS technology

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 1993, Pages 173-194

  Dickson, Gary W ^a   Partridge, Joo Eng Lee ^b   Robinson, Lora H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c ST CLOUD STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision support; Electronic meetings; Group consensus; Group facilitation; Group support systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000331428     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/249800     Document Type: Article

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