Cross-National Decision Making in a Group Support Systems Environment

摘要

Group Support Synstems were designed and developed with the aim of supporting groups in their decision making efforts. According to small group theories the important variables in groupwork were group size. task and environment (eg, McGrath, 1984). Psychologists believe that decision making entails two major phases: perception of the given situation, and selection of an opton on the basis of what is peerceived (Yates and Lee, 1996). The importance of the decision maker's perception in the decision making proces suggests that in addiiton to age, sex, educational background and job eperience of the decision maker his/her value system is also very important to the examined in GSS studies. The present study is an exploratory study using controlled laboratory experiments to examine the impact of the culture (value system) on decision making process in a Group Support Systems environment.