Scope and Objectives
Group decision and negotiation focuses on complex
and self-organizing processes that constitute multiparticipant,
multicriteria, ill-structured, dynamic, and often evolutionary problems.
Major approaches include: 1) applied game theory, experiment and social
choice, (2) cognitive and behavioral sciences as applied to group decision
and negotiation, (3) conflict analysis and resolution (4) software,
specifically group decision support systems (GDSS) and negotiation support
systems (GDNSS), (5) artificial intelligence, and 6) management science as
related to group decision-making. Many research initiatives combine two or
more of these fields. Many research initiatives combine two or more of these
fields.
In defining the domain of group decision and negotiation, the term “group” is interpreted to comprise all multiplayer contexts. Thus, organizational decision support systems providing organization-wide support are included. Group decision and negotiation refers to the whole process or flow of activities relevant to reaching a group decision, and not merely to the final choice – aspects of the process included in group decision and negotiation include scanning, communication and information sharing, problem definition (representation) and evolution, alternative generation, and social-emotional interaction. Descriptive, prescriptive, normative, and design viewpoints are all of interest. Thus, Group Decision and Negotiation deals broadly with relation and coordination in group processes.
Areas of application include, among others, intraorganizational coordination (as in operations management and integrated design, production, finance, marketing and distribution, including coordination of all phases of the produce life cycle), computer supported collaborative work and meetings, computer-supported negotiations including internet-supported negotiations and negotiating agents, labor-management negotiations, interorganizational negotiations (including negotiations among businesses, governments, nonprofit organizations, and joint ventures), intercultural negotiations, environmental negotiations, etc. See the Journal Group Decision and Negotiation for further illustrations of the scope of the field of Group Decision and Negotiation.
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