Abstract
tionships. Maintaining a negotiated social order is crucial to political feasibility and to emotional
commitment from the participants in relation to a solution package. However, Group Decision
Support Systems that attend overly to managing social order risk "group think" through "bounded
vision." This may be avoided if emotional commitment is also encouraged through participants
experiencing the problem situation from multiple perspectives and in relation to alternative solu-
tion strategies. Commitment depends upon both "means/ends rationality" and "procedural ratio-
nality." This acknowledges the balance in providing support to a group with respect to the nego-
tiation of social order, with the more traditional group decision support for socially negotiating
order out of the problem situation. This article argues that effective Group Decision Support Sys-
tems must attend to both aspects of creating order. OR modelling methods and the support that
canbe provided by modern micro-computers offer a new way forward--models can be toys that a
group can play with together, enabling them to create knowledge as well as use it.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 199-218 |
| Number of pages | 20 |
| Journal | Group Decision and Negotiation |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Nov 1992 |
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Keywords
- group decision support systems ()
- GDSS
- framework
- political teasibility
- group decision
- negotiation
- support systems
- procedural rationality
- emotional commitment
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A framework for thinking about group decision support systems (GDSS). / Eden, Colin.
In: Group Decision and Negotiation, Vol. 1, No. 3, 11.1992, p. 199-218.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
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T1 - A framework for thinking about group decision support systems (GDSS)
AU - Eden, Colin
PY - 1992/11
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N2 - Strategic problem solving in organizations is a social process that disturbs established social rela- tionships. Maintaining a negotiated social order is crucial to political feasibility and to emotional commitment from the participants in relation to a solution package. However, Group Decision Support Systems that attend overly to managing social order risk "group think" through "bounded vision." This may be avoided if emotional commitment is also encouraged through participants experiencing the problem situation from multiple perspectives and in relation to alternative solu- tion strategies. Commitment depends upon both "means/ends rationality" and "procedural ratio- nality." This acknowledges the balance in providing support to a group with respect to the nego- tiation of social order, with the more traditional group decision support for socially negotiating order out of the problem situation. This article argues that effective Group Decision Support Sys- tems must attend to both aspects of creating order. OR modelling methods and the support that canbe provided by modern micro-computers offer a new way forward--models can be toys that a group can play with together, enabling them to create knowledge as well as use it.
AB - Strategic problem solving in organizations is a social process that disturbs established social rela- tionships. Maintaining a negotiated social order is crucial to political feasibility and to emotional commitment from the participants in relation to a solution package. However, Group Decision Support Systems that attend overly to managing social order risk "group think" through "bounded vision." This may be avoided if emotional commitment is also encouraged through participants experiencing the problem situation from multiple perspectives and in relation to alternative solu- tion strategies. Commitment depends upon both "means/ends rationality" and "procedural ratio- nality." This acknowledges the balance in providing support to a group with respect to the nego- tiation of social order, with the more traditional group decision support for socially negotiating order out of the problem situation. This article argues that effective Group Decision Support Sys- tems must attend to both aspects of creating order. OR modelling methods and the support that canbe provided by modern micro-computers offer a new way forward--models can be toys that a group can play with together, enabling them to create knowledge as well as use it.
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KW - political teasibility
KW - group decision
KW - negotiation
KW - support systems
KW - procedural rationality
KW - emotional commitment
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