TY - JOUR
T1 - Group, sub-group and nominal group idea generation in an electronic meeting environment
AU - Dennis, Alan R.
AU - Valacich, Joseph S.
AU - Nunamaker, J. F.
N1 - Funding Information: This research was supported by grants from IBM, the National Science Foundation, NCR Corporation, and AT&T. Additional funding was provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We would like to thank Terry Connolly, Len Jessup and C.A.P. Smith for particularly helpful comments on earlier drafts of this paper. Publisher Copyright: © 1991 IEEE.
PY - 1991
Y1 - 1991
N2 - How should a group organize itself to generate ideas? Should all group members work together as one group, should they form several smaller sub-groups that work independently, or should members work separately as individuals? Previous research outside of Electronic Meeting Environments presents a clear and unambiguious answer members should work individually. Any benefits from group interaction (i.e. process gains) for idea generation are outweighed by the negative effects of group interaction (i.e. process losses). This paper re-examines this question in an electronic meeting environment through a reanalysis of two prior experiments. In contrast to findings from previous non-computer-mediated idea generation research, groups generated more ideas (with higher quality) than did the same number of participants working as individuals or in several smaller sub-groups.
AB - How should a group organize itself to generate ideas? Should all group members work together as one group, should they form several smaller sub-groups that work independently, or should members work separately as individuals? Previous research outside of Electronic Meeting Environments presents a clear and unambiguious answer members should work individually. Any benefits from group interaction (i.e. process gains) for idea generation are outweighed by the negative effects of group interaction (i.e. process losses). This paper re-examines this question in an electronic meeting environment through a reanalysis of two prior experiments. In contrast to findings from previous non-computer-mediated idea generation research, groups generated more ideas (with higher quality) than did the same number of participants working as individuals or in several smaller sub-groups.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.1991.184189
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.1991.184189
M3 - Conference article
SN - 1530-1605
VL - 3
SP - 573
EP - 579
JO - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
JF - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
M1 - 184189
T2 - 24th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 1991
Y2 - 8 January 1991 through 11 January 1991
ER -