James W. Ragan

ThinkersManagement scholar

Works

  • Group Approaches for Improving Strategic Decision Making: A Comparative Analysis of Dialectical Inquiry, Devil's Advocacy, and Consensus, Academy of Management Journal, 1986

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Known for

Co-author, with David Schweiger and William Sandberg, of the experiment finding that groups using dialectical inquiry or devil's advocacy produced higher quality recommendations and assumptions than groups seeking consensus, though members were less satisfied with the process.

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