Do groups know what they don't know?: Dealing with missing information in decision-making groups

Communication Research

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 507-525

  Henningsen, David Dryden ^a   Henningsen, Mary Lynn Miller ^a  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Group decision making; Hidden profile; Information pooling; Missing information; Shared information; Unshared information

Indexed keywords

EID: 34548460689     PISSN: 00936502     EISSN: 15523810     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0093650207305594     Document Type: Article

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