The effects of anonymity on GDSS group process with an idea-generating task

MIS Quarterly: Management Information Systems

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 1990, Pages 313-321

  Jessup, Leonard M ^a   Connolly, Terry ^b   Galegher, Jolene ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anonymity; Group process and outcome; Group support systems; Idea generation and evaluation

Indexed keywords

EID: 53349163767     PISSN: 02767783     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/248893     Document Type: Article

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