Managing organizational innovation: the evolution from word processing to office information systems
Managing organizational innovation: the evolution from word processing to office information systems
Descriptive analysis for computer-based decision support
Operations Research
“Computer support for meetings of groups working on unstructured problems: a field experiment"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Using computing in quality team meetings: initial observations from the IRS-Minnesota project
Journal of Management Information Systems
Issues in computer and non-computer supported GDSSs
Proceedings of the conference on First specialized conference on decision support systems
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Electronic Brainstorming: the Illusion of Productivity
Information Systems Research
Evaluating the Impact of Dss, Cognitive Effort, and Incentives on Strategy Selection
Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
Research Note: Electronic Brainstorming: Illusions and Patterns of Productivity
Information Systems Research
Computer Support and Facilitated Structure in Meetings: An Empirical Comparison of their Impact
HICSS '96 Proceedings of the 29th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences Volume 3: Collaboration Systems and Technology
Generalizing Generalizability in Information Systems Research
Information Systems Research
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
A technology transition model derived from field investigation of GSS use aboard the U.S.S. CORONADO
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: GSS insights: a look back at the lab, a look forward from the field
Group support systems for strategic planning
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: The impacts of business process change on organizational performance
Lessons from a dozen years of group support systems research: a discussion of lab and field findings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Information technology and its organizational impact
Methodology-driven use of automated support in business process re-engineering
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special issue: Organizational impact of group support systems, expert systems, and executive information systems
Group Support Systems: A Descriptive Evaluation of Case and Field Studies
Journal of Management Information Systems
Identification of Comment Authorship in Anonymous Group Support Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Breaking the Myths of Rewards: An Exploratory Study of Attitudes about Knowledge Sharing
Information Resources Management Journal
Return on investment and organizational adoption
CSCW '04 Proceedings of the 2004 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Designing for collaborative creative problem solving
Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & cognition
TeamSpirit: Design, implementation, and evaluation of a Web-based group decision support system
Decision Support Systems
ACM Transactions on Management Information Systems (TMIS)
Why adoption and use behavior of IT/IS cannot last?--two studies in China
Information Systems Frontiers
Predicting Collaboration Technology Use: Integrating Technology Adoption and Collaboration Research
Journal of Management Information Systems
Proceedings of the 50th annual conference on Computers and People Research
Brainstorming under constraints: why software developers brainstorm in groups
BCS-HCI '11 Proceedings of the 25th BCS Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
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This paper argues that much of the past research on electronic brainstorming has been somewhat myopic. Much as Sony focused on the quality of the picture on its Beta format, we as IS researchers have focused on the number of ideas generated as the dominant measure of electronic brainstorming effectiveness. When VHS killed Beta, Sony discovered that image quality was a secondary consideration for most VCR users. Despite the compelling research on its performance benefits, electronic brainstorming has not yet displaced-or even joined-verbal brainstorming as a widely used idea generation technique. This paper presents arguments that users may not be primarily concerned with the number of ideas generated when planning a brainstorming session, but rather may equally desire group well being and member support. We present theoretical arguments and empirical evidence suggesting that electronic brainstorming is not as effective as verbal brainstorming at providing group well being and member support. We believe that these arguments may also apply to other group and individual research areas and may also call for a reevaluation of the technology acceptance model (TAM). Finally, we suggest further research that may help electronic brainstorming avoid the fate of the Beta format.