Teijo Palander 
,
Mari Toivonen,
Sanna Laukkanen
GroupWare and group decision support systems for wood procurement organisation. A review
Palander T., Toivonen M., Laukkanen S. (2002). GroupWare and group decision support systems for wood procurement organisation. A review. Silva Fennica vol. 36 no. 2 article id 546. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.546
Abstract
Many kinds of decision support systems (DSSs) have been suggested for use of wood procurement organisations, but few meet the real needs of team managers in group decision-making process. Therefore, it has been concluded that the important features of group decision support systems (GDSSs) should be developed for teamwork-based organisations. Electronic meeting systems (EMSs), Computer-aided Visualisations (CAVs) and heuristics as well as other numerical approaches as combined with optimisation seem to be some of the most promising elements of GroupWare, because decisions are made in distributed groups and they deal with human behaviour. Relations between GDSSs and spontaneous decision conferencing (SDC) for modern organisations are also discussed, and suggestions for future research of management approaches are also given.
Keywords
collaboration;
teamwork-based organisation;
group decision-making;
communication
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Palander,
University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry, Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland
E-mail
teijo.palander@forest.joensuu.fi
- Toivonen, University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry, Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland E-mail mt@nn.fi
- Laukkanen, University of Joensuu, Faculty of Forestry, Box 111, FIN-80101 Joensuu, Finland E-mail sl@nn.fi
Received 28 June 2000 Accepted 27 May 2002 Published 31 December 2002
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