A Meta-Analysis of Group Side Effects in Electronic Brainstorming: More Heads are Better than One

International Journal of e-Collaboration (IJeC)

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 24-42

  Dennis, Alan R ^a   Williams, Michael L ^b  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PEPPERDINE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

electronic brainstorming; group size; group support systems; GSS; nominal groups

Indexed keywords

EID: 85001698762     PISSN: 15483673     EISSN: 15483681     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4018/jec.2005010102     Document Type: Article

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