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Collective decision processes remain a common management approach in most organizations. In such processes, it seems important to offer participants the opportunity to confront the differences in their points of view. To this end, cognitive and technical tools are required that facilitate the sharing of individuals’ reasoning and preferences, but at the same time allow them to keep some information and attitudes to themselves. The aim of our study is to assess whether, in the multi-criteria approach to problem structuring, decision-makers can be comfortable using shared criteria in addition to private criteria. For this purpose, an exploratory experiment with student subjects was conducted using the Group Decision Support System, GRUS.
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The authors would like to thank the CIMI Excellence Laboratory, Toulouse, France, for inviting Marc Kilgour on a Scientific Expert position during the period May-June 2015 and for allowing a visiting period to Pascale Zaraté at the Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada, during the period December 2015 – February 2016.
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Zaraté, P., Camilleri, G., Kilgour, D.M. (2017). Multi-criteria Group Decision Making with Private and Shared Criteria: An Experiment. In: Bajwa, D., Koeszegi, S., Vetschera, R. (eds) Group Decision and Negotiation. Theory, Empirical Evidence, and Application. GDN 2016. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-52624-9_3
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