The "Clustering Effect"
- 1 May 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Small Group Behavior
- Vol. 18 (2) , 224-238
- https://doi.org/10.1177/104649648701800206
Abstract
With the growing complexity of decision making in modern social institutions, managers are finding it increasingly necessary to involve groups of experts and advisers in order to achieve effective solutions to problems. Considerable research has been devoted to the task of identifying the relative characteristics of the more popular group decision-making techniques. This experiment measures the clustering effect found during the idea-generation phase of nominal grouping.Keywords
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