Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements

Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these group support technologies mainly uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the research results and the technologies themselves may be less effec...

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Main Authors: Abdat, Sjarif, Pervan, Graham
Other Authors: Frada Burstein
Format: Conference Paper
Published: The School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University 1999
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12979
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description Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these group support technologies mainly uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the research results and the technologies themselves may be less effective when applied directly to different cultures or cross-cultural situations. This paper aims to explore design requirements for technological support for groups engaged in strategy formulation in Indonesia, a national culture which has relatively high power distance, low individualism, and weak uncertainty avoidance (Hofstede, 1980),and high context (Hall and Hall, 1990). We suggest analysing a typical group meeting activity (strategy formulation) in Indonesia at the pre-meeting stage and propose a programme of research to design and develop supporting technologies in this cultural environment, and then evaluate them in the field. Some results from the early stage of the requirement determination including cultural issues are presented.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-129792017-01-30T11:34:03Z Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements Abdat, Sjarif Pervan, Graham Frada Burstein Research about Group Support Systems and the design of these group support technologies mainly uses western culture as a point of reference. While the research reveals promising results on the effectiveness of these technologies, the research results and the technologies themselves may be less effective when applied directly to different cultures or cross-cultural situations. This paper aims to explore design requirements for technological support for groups engaged in strategy formulation in Indonesia, a national culture which has relatively high power distance, low individualism, and weak uncertainty avoidance (Hofstede, 1980),and high context (Hall and Hall, 1990). We suggest analysing a typical group meeting activity (strategy formulation) in Indonesia at the pre-meeting stage and propose a programme of research to design and develop supporting technologies in this cultural environment, and then evaluate them in the field. Some results from the early stage of the requirement determination including cultural issues are presented. 1999 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12979 The School of Information Management & Systems, Monash University restricted
spellingShingle Abdat, Sjarif
Pervan, Graham
Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title_full Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title_fullStr Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title_full_unstemmed Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title_short Developing group support systems for Indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: A proposal and some initial requirements
title_sort developing group support systems for indonesian culture at the pre-meeting stage of strategy formulation: a proposal and some initial requirements
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/12979