%0 Review article
%T GroupWare and group decision support systems for wood procurement organisation. A review
%A Palander, Teijo
%A Toivonen, Mari
%A Laukkanen, Sanna
%D 2002
%J Silva Fennica
%V 36
%N 2
%R doi:10.14214/sf.546
%U https://silvafennica.fi/article/546
%X 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.