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Interactive group decision making models assume that rational and predictable decision makers will provide inputs to the decision process. Unfortunately, we know that all decision makers will not act in accordance with such assumptions. It is intuitively obvious that groups with one or more inflexible decision makers will have more difficulty achieving consensus than groups consisting of flexible decision makers. Likewise, indecisive or inconsistent decision makers may have difficulty attaining consensus. How decision maker characteristics effect interactive group decision making systems is unclear. Whether individual differences in decision type will interfere with the convergence of the interactive approach is unknown, however, one would expect some differences in performance among the various interactive group approaches.
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Franz, L.S., Reeves, G.R., Gonzales, J.J. (1989). The Effect of Decision Maker Characteristics on Group Decision Making. In: Lockett, A.G., Islei, G. (eds) Improving Decision Making in Organisations. Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, vol 335. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-49298-3_13
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