A System Dynamics Approach for Making Group Decision

  • Kwahk Kee-Young (Department of Management Information Systems, Keimyung University) ;
  • Kim Hee-Woong (Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore)
  • Published : 2003.05.01

Abstract

The rapidly changing business environment has required cooperation and coorduiation among functional units n organizations which should Involve group decision-making processes Although many group derision-making support tools and methods have provided the collaborative capabilities for organizational members, they often lack features supporting the dynamic complexity issue frequently occurring at group decision-making processes This study proposes system dynamics modeling as a group decision-making support tool to deal with the group derision-making tasks having properties of dynamic complexity in terms of cognitive fit theory.

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