A review of research in Group Support Systems: Leaders, approaches and directions

Decision Support Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 149-159

  Pervan, Graham P ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Group Support Systems; Literature analysis; Research methods

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; RESEARCH LABORATORIES;

DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032090533     PISSN: 01679236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-9236(98)00041-4     Document Type: Article

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