A foundation for the study of group decision support systems
Management Science
“Information technology to support electronic meetings"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer graphics: state of the arts
Computer support of groups: theory-based models for GDSS research
Management Science
Groups over time: what are we really studying?
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies - Special issue: group support systems
Groups Interacting with Technology: Ideas, Evidence, Issues and an Agenda
Groups Interacting with Technology: Ideas, Evidence, Issues and an Agenda
Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
Group Support Systems: New Perspectives
An assessment of group support systems experimental research: methodology and results
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: GSS insights: a look back at the lab, a look forward from the field
Enhancing information sharing in group support systems (GSS)
Computers in Human Behavior
Impact of GDSS: opening the black box
Decision Support Systems
The use of group support systems in focus groups: Information technology meets qualitative research
Computers in Human Behavior
Research Note: Individual Cognition and Dual-Task Interference in Group Support Systems
Information Systems Research
Investigating the Moderators of the Group Support Systems Use with Meta-Analysis
Journal of Management Information Systems
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Small group research and the development of small group theory have flourished in recent years, yet most group support systems (GSS) research is conducted without regard to theories of small groups. Here we contrast the richness of small group theory with the theoretical poverty of most experimental group support systems research. We look first at the state of small group theory, contrasting it with the state of theory in GSS work, using 10 recently published GSS studies as examples. Looking to small group theory as the basis for GSS research would add a great deal to GSS work, the topic of the next section in the paper. Absent a reliance on small group theory, however, we propose an alternative approach: Drop the GSS term altogether and return to a term that better describes what GSS research has always been about, supporting meetings, as captured in the phrase Electronic Meeting Systems.