A cognitive mapping approach to organizing the participation of multiple actors in a problem structuring process

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 505-526

  Damart, Sébastien ^a  

^a Universite Paris Dauphine   (France)

Author keywords

Cognitive mapping; Facilitation; Participation; Problem structuring methods

Indexed keywords

EID: 77955558147     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-008-9141-y     Document Type: Article

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