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A Simulation based Approach for Group Decision-Making Support  

Kwahk, Kee-Young (Department of Management Information Systems, Keimyung University)
Kim, Hee-Woong (Department of Information Systems, National University of Singapore)
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Management Science and Financial Engineering / v.10, no.1, 2004 , pp. 1-23 More about this Journal
Abstract
The changing structure of organization and the increasing diversity of business have forced organizations to have abilities to coordinate dispersed business activities. They have required cooperation and coordination among the functional units in the organization which should involve group decision-making processes. Although many group decision-making support tools and methods have been introduced to enable the collaborative process of group decision-making, they often lack the features supporting the dynamic complexity issue frequently occurring at group decision-making processes. This results in cognitive unfit between the group decision-making tasks and their supporting tools, bringing about mixed results in their effects on group decision-making. This study proposes system dynamics modeling as a group decision-making support tool to deal with the group decision -making tasks having properties of dynamic complexity in terms of cognitive fit theory.
Keywords
Group decision-making; System dynamics; Dynamic complexity;
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