The role of structured conflict and consensus approaches in virtual team strategic decision making

Document Type

Syllabus

Publication Date

12-1-2006

Abstract

Do procedures that improve face-to-face decision meetings also improve virtual "meetings?" Might the effectiveness of such procedures improve with practice? This longitudinal experiment investigated the efficiency, effectiveness and group member perceptions of dialectical inquiry (DI) and constructive consensus (CC) approaches to strategic decision making in a virtual (distributed) computer-mediated-communications (CMC) environment. There were no differences between DI and CC groups in terms of decision effectiveness. However, this result has not been unusual in CMC research. DI groups had significantly higher perceived depth of evaluation than CC groups. CC groups reported greater decision acceptance and willingness to work together again than DI groups. The results are discussed in terms of their implications for group support systems research and design in the era of the World Wide Web. © 2007, Idea Group Inc.

Identifier

84900260346 (Scopus)

ISBN

[9781599043937]

Publication Title

Emerging E Collaboration Concepts and Applications

External Full Text Location

https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-59904-393-7.ch006

First Page

96

Last Page

118

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