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Article: Structuring time and task in electronic brainstorming.
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- MIS Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Introduction
Group support systems (GSS) have been used in organizations to support brainstorming and idea generation for more than a decade (e.g., Dennis 1994; Nunamaker et al. 1987; Tyran et al. 1992). GSSs enable group members to interact electronically by exchanging anonymous, typed ideas, rather than taking turns speaking. In general, groups using GSS tend to generate more ideas than verbally interacting groups and as many or more ideas than nominal groups (Dennis and Valacich 1993; Gallupe et al. 1991; 1992; Valacich et al. 1994). However, there have been important performance differences among the various studies (Dennis et al. 1996), so much so that some ...
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