Member Awareness of Expertise, Information Sharing, Information Weighting, and Group Decision Making

Small Group Research

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 532-562

  Baumann, Michael R ^a   Bonner, Bryan L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

common knowledge effect; group decision making; information sharing; recognition of expertise; social combination

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884169618     PISSN: 10464964     EISSN: 15528278     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1046496413494415     Document Type: Article

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