A Comparison of Group Model Building and Strategic Options Development and Analysis

Group Decision and Negotiation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 781-803

  Rouwette, Etienne ^a   Bastings, Ingrid ^b   Blokker, Hans ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b TNO   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Evaluation; Facilitated modeling; Facilitation; Group model building; Problem structuring methods; SODA; System dynamics

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053645400     PISSN: 09262644     EISSN: 15729907     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10726-010-9207-5     Document Type: Article

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