GDSS research: An overview and historical analysis |
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Authors: | Graham P Pervan Douglas J Atkinson |
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Institution: | (1) School of Information Systems, Curtin University of Technology, GPO Box U1987, 6001 Perth, WA, Australia |
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Abstract: | Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS) is a relatively new area of Information Systems research, but some patterns have begun to emerge in the focus of this research and in the approaches to conducting it. This article represents a substantial review of a large body of GDSS literature and an analysis of that literature according to a specific classification scheme. The dimensions of the classification scheme include the age of the research publication, the general research approach, the philosophy underlying the data collection, the type of GDSS support, whether the research is longitudinal, and the primary focus of the research, as well as a few demographic variables such as author and source. The results of the literature analysis lead to recommendations to GDSS researchers by the authors of a need for greater use of the available research approaches and other data analysis philosophies, a greater emphasis on field work, more longitudinal research, and some changes in the focus of the research. |
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Keywords: | IS research GDSS research research methods literature analysis |
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