Issues in the design of facilitated collaboration processes

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 347-361

  Kolfschoten, Gwendolyn L ^a   Den Hengst Bruggeling, Mariëlle ^b   De Vreede, Gert Jan ^c  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA AT OMAHA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collaboration Engineering; Collaboration process design; Design and preparation; Facilitation; Facilitation techniques; Group support systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 34249941466     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-006-9054-6     Document Type: Article

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