Paper Info
Title
Structured modeling group support systems: a product design theory
Abstract
Structured modeling is critical to the design, development, and implementation of many systems including computer software, business processes, and data networks. Since the creation of structured models relies on the knowledge of many organizational stakeholders, groups often accomplish this task. Group support systems (GSS) focus on the support of group processes and would appear to be useful for structured modeling; however, GSS usually only provide textual or decision related output rather than the structured models needed for many design processes. This paper proposes a class of systems, structured modeling GSS (smGSS), which adds support for the development of structured models to standard GSS. Since past research has shown that research results may be difficult to compare across studies when the system under investigation is not well defined, this paper develops a product design theory that defines the required characteristics of and testable design propositions for an smGSS as derived from existing theory and empirical investigations.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.im.2003.07.003
Information & Management
Keywords
DocType
Volume
structured model,group process,h.4.1 office automation,design process,groupware,d.1.1 applicative (functional) programming,group support systems (gss),d.2.2 design tools and techniques,structured modeling,group support system,testable design proposition,standard gss,research result,i.6.5 model development,past research,d.2.10 design,product design theory,h.5.3 group and organization interfaces,structured modeling group support,product design
Journal
41
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
5
Information & Management
4
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.43
22
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenneth R. Walsh121217.17
Michael H. Dickey2524.93