Research on group decision‐making in speech communication has assumed interaction
processes are important determinants of group decisions. However, major psychological …

This essay presents a theory of group decision‐making. Utilizing recent advances in
structuration theory, which focuses on the production and reproduction of social systems …

The purpose of this investigation was to demonstrate that group decision-making
performance is contingent on the effective or ineffective satisfaction of important decisional …

The present study sought to compare the nature and content of interaction within a number
of “effective” and “ineffective” decision‐making groups in an effort to identify consistent …

Although communication scholars usually have assumed that social interaction is intrinsic to
the process of producing good group decisions, some writers have argued that social …

As a vehicle for comparing the group valence model's description of the group problem‐
solving process with more individually oriented models, several versions of McPhee, Poole …

Data from an earlier published study were used to test the social decision scheme (SDS)
proposition that initial distribution of preferences within a group influences the nature of …

This research had two main objectives: to determine how groups hold themselves together
and make decisions over time, and to confront three key issues that have traditionally …

The literature that has characterized the field of group studies has been controversial and
confusing with regard to the effect of communicative and noncommunicative variables on …

The present investigation sought to obtain empirical data that either directly supports or
refutes the popular assumption that communication is an essential element of effective …