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The discussion now proceeds to the subject of decision-making in groups. For our purpose, a group is defined as a number of individuals or subgroups that share a common purpose or have one or more common objectives. For example, members of a committee which has been set up to organize an exhibition constitute a group, as do nations linked together by a treaty and companies engaged in a joint venture. These group members can be envisaged as in Fig. 6-1.
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Radford, K.J. (1989). Decision-making in Groups. In: Individual and Small Group Decisions. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2068-6_6
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