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A Study of Groupthink in Online Community

verfasst von : Nhu-Quynh Phan, Seok-Hee Lee, Jin Won Jang, Gwang Yong Gim

Erschienen in: Computational Science/Intelligence & Applied Informatics

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

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Groupthink phenomenon is getting a lot of consideration and many authors have studied about it in the historical research. Base on the development of information technology, people can study, entertain and work together in online communities on the Internet. Consequently, this paper studies about Groupthink phenomenon that can affect the decision-making quality of online communities in Korea. This empirical study towards the respondents was in Korea who currently participate online communities. The total number of surveys collected 285 samples, after removing the invalid samples, and 249 samples were used to conduct the analysis. Our analysis shows that organizational structural faults does not affect overestimation of the group, cohesion of a group also does not affect closed-mindedness and overestimation of the group also does not affect symptoms of defective decision-making. The results achieved in this study are potentially essential for future researches for online communities.

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Titel: A Study of Groupthink in Online Community
verfasst von: Nhu-Quynh Phan
Seok-Hee Lee
Jin Won Jang
Gwang Yong Gim
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Buch: Computational Science/Intelligence & Applied Informatics
Print ISBN: 978-3-319-96805-6

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-96806-3

Copyright-Jahr: 2019
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-96806-3_11

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