The Impact of a Structured‐Argument Approach on Group Problem Formulation

Decision Sciences

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 451-474

  Niederman, Fred ^a   DeSanctis, Gerardine ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BALTIMORE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

and Problem Formulation; Experimental Design; Group Decision Support Systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990556364     PISSN: 00117315     EISSN: 15405915     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-5915.1995.tb01436.x     Document Type: Article

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