“Information technology to support electronic meetings"
Management Information Systems Quarterly
Communications of the ACM - Special issue on computer graphics: state of the arts
Parallelism, anonymity, structure, and group size in electronic meetings
Parallelism, anonymity, structure, and group size in electronic meetings
Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour
Computer Augmented Teamwork: A Guided Tour
Effects of computer support and facilitator support on group processes and outcomes: an experimental assessment
Human Problem Solving
Behavioral sampling as a data-gathering method for GSS research
SIGCPR '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGCPR conference on Computer personnel research
The creative process: the effects of group memory on individual idea generation
Journal of Management Information Systems
Journal of Management Information Systems
Information Technology Governance and Decision Support Systems
Proceedings of the 2008 conference on Collaborative Decision Making: Perspectives and Challenges
Digital mind mapping: innovations for real-time collaborative thinking
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
International Journal of Networking and Virtual Organisations
Expert Systems with Applications: An International Journal
DPPI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 Conference on Designing Pleasurable Products and Interfaces
EGOVIS'12/EDEM'12 Proceedings of the 2012 Joint international conference on Electronic Government and the Information Systems Perspective and Electronic Democracy, and Proceedings of the 2012 Joint international conference on Advancing Democracy, Government and Governance
Group Support Systems and Action Research: An Empirical-Action Research Cycle
International Journal of Strategic Information Technology and Applications
Compensatory Adaptation to Media Obstacles: An Experimental Study of Process Redesign Dyads
Information Resources Management Journal
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Radical and discontinuous change is the order of the day in the 1990s. Organizations are seeking to improve their fit with a constantly changing environment through initiatives such as business process redesign (BPR) and total quality management (TQM). Getting people to think creatively is critical to the success of these change efforts. Group Support Systems (GSS) have emerged as a potential means of supporting and augmenting creativity in the modem team-based organization. GSS research, however, has largely ignored the nature (i.e., creativity) of ideas that are generated.This paper seeks to move GSS research on idea generation beyond its previously limited focus on the quantity of ideas generated when using GSS. Drawing on multiple theoretical perspectives and research streams--creativity and idea generation, Kirton's cognitive style, GSS, and adaptive structuration theory (AST)--we distinguish between two orthogonal dimensions for measuring creativity (of ideas, individuals, and creativity processes)--creativity level and paradigm-relatedness; identify and characterize fundamental structuring mechanisms present in creativity techniques and GSS that influence one or the other dimension; and explore the implications of the above for research, design, and the targeted deployment of GSS and creativity techniques in organizations.We develop a theoretical framework of creative processes that is independent of any available or yet unforeseen technologies and techniques. The framework allows researchers and designers to examine GSS and creativity techniques at a finer level of detail than before, thereby allowing a richer understanding of how they work. This improved understanding will help organizations develop and maintain environments that foster creativity in the work force.