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A Dual-Level Model of Team Decision Making  

Kang, Min-Cheol (아주대학교 경영대학 e-비즈니스학부)
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Asia pacific journal of information systems / v.14, no.2, 2004 , pp. 37-59 More about this Journal
Abstract
Team decision making is a collective behavior that needs to be understood by considering properties belonging to team and individual member domains together. This paper introduces a conceptual model called "Dual-Level(DL)" model that describes a team decision-making process in terms of team level, member level, and the relationship between them. The team-level view explains the decision-making process by considering the team as a wholeand divides the process into three stages: Problem Conceptualization, Alternative Generation, and Selection. The member-level view describes what happens to individual members when they go through the group process and splits it into the five phases: Individual Cognitive Mapping, Problem Decomposition, Subproblem Session, Subproblem Integration, and Team Decision. The DL model works as a theoretical framework to explore team decision making by using a set of computational models of team design and team members. In practice, the conceptual framework is used to build a computational model of decision making team, called "Team-Soar."
Keywords
Team-Soar; Dual-Level; Team Decision Making; Team Simulation;
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