Mental models: towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness
Mental models: towards a cognitive science of language, inference, and consciousness
The society of mind
Facilitating group creativity: Experience with a group decision support system
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special Issue: Decision Support and Knowledge-Based Systems
A foundation for the study of group decision support systems
Management Science
Towards a heuristic theory of problem structuring
Management Science
“Information technology to support electronic meetings"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Defining managerial problems: a framework for prescriptive theorizing
Management Science
Unified theories of cognition
Parallel distributed processing: explorations in the microstructure of cognition, vol. 1: foundations
Towards a theory of managerial problem solving
Decision Support Systems
ICIS '91 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information systems
The Architecture of Cognition
The New Science of Management Decision
The New Science of Management Decision
Computer Models of Thought and Language
Computer Models of Thought and Language
Human Problem Solving
Ethnic diversity in IS: What are current Ph.D. students saying?
ACM SIGCPR Computer Personnel
Cognitive style may mitigate the impact of communication mode
Information and Management
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information overload: addressing the productivity paradox in face-to-face electronic meetings
Journal of Management Information Systems - Special section: Exploring the outlands of the MIS discipline
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Many of the problem situations facing organizations today are complex and ill-structured, lacking a definitive structure and formulation. The attempt to clearly understand and make sense of these situations is a difficult, but crucial, early requirement for effective problem solving. Problem-solving theory suggests that element finding--identifying the elements or variables that are relevant to a problem situation--is one of the earliest essential divergent activities of sense making. This paper details a theoretical framework synthesizing the work of a number of problem-solving research streams to highlight how brainstorming, although with distinct objectives, can be used as a divergent tool during very different phases of the problem-solving process. Using this framework, we empirically explored the impact of electronic brainstorming--a feature of group support systems--on element finding as groups attempted to identify the elements of an ill-structured situation facing them.