WILL DISTRIBUTED GSS GROUPS MAKE MORE EXTREME DECISIONS? AN EMPIRICAL STUDY

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Information Systems, ICIS 1996

Volumn , Issue , 1996, Pages 326-338

  Sia, Choon Ling ^a   Tan, Bernard C Y ^a   Wei, Kwok Kee ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INFORMATION USE;

CHOICE SHIFT; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; DISTRIBUTED GROUPS; DISTRIBUTED MEETINGS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EXPOSED TO; GROUP MEMBERS; PREFERENCE CHANGE; SHIFT CHANGES; SHIFT-AND;

POLARIZATION;

EID: 0007152305     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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