ABSTRACT
This chapter reviews the conceptual foundation of microprocessing in structured teams that has been offered and the empirical regularities that have been reported in support of the conceptualization. The basis for studying ill-structured decision making as information exchange is first reviewed. The intended contributions of each chapter and the inferences they offered for the design of decision-making teams are then summarized. Integration of the chapters in a dynamic system and results of numerical studies with this system are then reported. Finally, directions for subsequent inquiry on interactive groups and teams as decision-making units are considered. Following the chapter on interorganizational teams, the first of these is in studying network models of teams in organizations. Issues in the designation of attachment rules for agents in the network are reviewed, and a basis for attachment rules between agents that represents social structure is exemplified. The integration of technology in GDSSs is then given direction.
