Groupthink phenomenon has studied in a number of authors for over the past 40 years and now this topic is still getting a lot of attention. Groupthink occurs for a group of closely linked together in a provocative situational context. The majority of ...
Groupthink phenomenon has studied in a number of authors for over the past 40 years and now this topic is still getting a lot of attention. Groupthink occurs for a group of closely linked together in a provocative situational context. The majority of authors have studied this phenomenon for the offline groups. Today with the development of science and technology, many people often study and work via the Internet with online communities. Therefore, this study tries to explore and examine the phenomenon of Groupthink that may affect how the quality of decision makes for online communities. This empirical study towards the respondents was in Vietnam who currently participate online community. The survey was conducted from October 20, 2015 to November 10, 2015 for a period of 20 days. The total number of surveys collected 321 samples, after removing the invalid samples, and 285 samples were used to conduct the analysis.
According to the analysis, Cohesion of the group does not affect to closed-mindedness of the group and Provocative situational context does not affect to Overestimation of the group. Furthermore, Overestimation of the group also does not affect to Symptoms of defective decision-making in online communities. This result has some differences with the basic theoretical model that Janis had proposed. I hope that the results of this experimental study will contribute useful for further research in this field in the future.