An empirical investigation of shared understanding and commitment to action in decision conferencing

Decision Conferencing is a form of GDSS that rests on the premise that the process and computer modelling it incorporates will provide two crucial benefits to groups trying to solve problems: a) participants develop a shared understanding of the issue they are facing, and b) the Decision conferencin...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wood, Margot, Pervan, Graham, Schmidenberg, Olive
Other Authors: Fran Ackerman
Format: Conference Paper
Published: Delft University of Technology 2001
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/42139
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Summary:Decision Conferencing is a form of GDSS that rests on the premise that the process and computer modelling it incorporates will provide two crucial benefits to groups trying to solve problems: a) participants develop a shared understanding of the issue they are facing, and b) the Decision conferencing process fosters the generation of a commitment to act on the decision made. This empirical study shows some significant statistical support for this premise, but also demonstrates that there are other factors involved.