Exploring the Boundaries of Successful GSS Application: Supporting Inter- Organizational Policy Networks

Data Base for Advances in Information Systems

Volumn 30, Issue , 1999, Pages 111-130

  de Vreede, Gert Jan ^a   de Bruijn, Hans ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

action research; creativity tasks; group support systems; mixed motive tasks; negotiation; policy making; preference tasks

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141486120     PISSN: 00950033     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/344241.344248     Document Type: Article

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