Group Decision Making: Friend or Foe?

IEEE International Engineering Management Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 405-409

  Wetmore III, William R ^a   Summers, Joshua ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH GMBH   (Germany)

^b CLEMSON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Decision; Decision making; Group; Preference

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; OPTIMIZATION; PERSONNEL; PROBABILITY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SOCIAL ASPECTS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS;

DECISION; GROUP; PREFERENCE;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 1142275530     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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