Culture and media effects on group decision making under majority influence

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn 1, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Zhang, Dongsong ^a   Lowry, Paul Benjamin ^b   Fu, Xiaolan ^c   Zhou, Lina ^a   Adipat, Boonlit ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

^b BRIGHAM YOUNG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOURPERSON GROUPS; MEDIA EFFECTS; MEDIA RICHNESS;

INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT; PUBLIC RELATIONS; SOCIAL ASPECTS;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 33749594256     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2006.109     Document Type: Conference Paper

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