Does knowledge sharing and withholding of information in organizational committees affect quality of group decision making?

Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management, ECKM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 341-348

  Kamau, Caroline ^a   Harorimana, Deogratias ^a  

^a SOUTHAMPTON SOLENT UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Decision making; Group polarization; Groupthink; Information sharing; Knowledge economy; Organization committees

Indexed keywords

BIASED INFORMATION; COMMITTEE MEMBERS; GROUP DECISION MAKING; GROUP PERFORMANCE; GROUPTHINK; INFORMATION SEARCH; INFORMATION SHARING; KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY; KNOWLEDGE-SHARING; LEADERSHIP STYLE; NOVEL INFORMATION; POOR INFORMATION;

INFORMATION ANALYSIS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; POLARIZATION;

DECISION MAKING;

EID: 79951469103     PISSN: 20488963     EISSN: 20488971     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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