Bibliometric analysis of groupthink in organization: Cases study in the world

Syopyani Rhayu; Nuryakin; Udin

doi:10.31893/multirev.2024018

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Abstract

A phenomenon that often occurs in an organization is groupthink. Groupthink is a concept that describes the habit of seeking consensus in organizations or groups; most of the results of this process are a terrible final decision and fatal to the organization. Research Objective To analyze groupthink in the organization. The method used in this study is qualitative research with a literature study approach. The data source in this study was taken from the Scopus database by entering the keyword "Groupthink AND organization" with the number of articles, namely, 63 documents. This study found that the global groupthink study from 1982 to 2022 was only 63 articles; this shows that groupthink studies within the organization have not been studied much. At the same time, groupthink is often found in an organization. The group think tank began to be widely studied from 2005 to 2022, although it is understood that it is not significantly experiencing a development trend. Next, during the time bracket from 1982 to 2022, groupthink was studied in terms of behavior, political group dynamics in organizations, decision-making, communication and legal cases in an organization and was widely encountered in the United States of America.
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Rhayu, S., Nuryakin, & Udin. (2023). Bibliometric analysis of groupthink in organization: Cases study in the world. Multidisciplinary Reviews, 7(1), 2024018. https://doi.org/10.31893/multirev.2024018

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[2] Asniar, D. A., & Sarwoprasodjo, S. (2019). Hubungan Fenomena Groupthink Dengan Gaya Kepemimpinan Ketua Rt Di Desa Cikarawang. Jurnal Komunikasi Pembangunan, 17(1), 28–37. https://doi.org/10.29244/jurnalkmp.17.1.28-37

[3] Baron, R. S. (2005). So right it’s wrong: Groupthink and the ubiquitous nature of polarized group decision making.

[4] Barr, K., & Mintz, A. (2018). Public Policy Perspective on Group Decision‐Making Dynamics in Foreign Policy. Policy Studies Journal, 46, S69–S90.

[5] Charles C. manz, Henry P.Sims, J. (1982). The Potential for “Groupthink” ini Autonomous Work Groups. Human Relations, 35(9), 773–784.

[6] Cleary, M., Lees, D., & Sayers, J. (2019). Leadership, Thought Diversity, and the Influence of Groupthink. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 40(8), 731–733. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2019.1604050

[7] Ernst, M. D., & Chapin, J. (2005). The Groupthink specification exercise. Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Software Engineering, 617–618.

[8] Friedman, S. (2004). Learning to make more effective decisions: changing beliefs as a prelude to action. The Learning Organization, 11(2), 110–128. https://doi.org/10.1108/09696470410521583

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[10] Huang, J.-H., Duan, X.-Y., He, F.-F., Wang, G.-J., & Hu, X.-Y. (2021). A historical review and Bibliometric analysis of research on Weak measurement research over the past decades based on Biblioshiny. 1–19. http://arxiv.org/abs/2108.11375

[11] Janis, I. L. (2008). Groupthink. IEEE Engineering Management Review, 36(1), 36.

[12] Kamau, C., & Harorimana, D. (2008). Does knowledge sharing and withholding of information in organizational committees affect quality of group decision making? Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management, 341–348.

[13] Kelman, S., Sanders, R., & Pandit, G. (2017). “Tell It Like It Is”: Decision Making, Groupthink, and Decisiveness among U.S. Federal Subcabinet Executives. Governance, 30(2), 245–261. https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12200

[14] Kelman, S., Sanders, R., Taylor, S., & Pandit, G. (2023). “ Tell It Like It Is”: Groupthink, Decisiveness, and Decision-Making Among US Federal Subcabinet Executives.

[15] Ko, A. S. O. (2005). Organizational communications in Hong Kong: a cultural approach to groupthink. Corporate Communications: An International Journal, 10(4), 351–357. https://doi.org/10.1108/CCIJ-02-2015-0009

[16] Lunenburg, F. C. (2010). Group decision making: The potential for groupthink. International Journal of Management, Business, and Administration, 13(1), 1–6.

[17] Matusitz, J., & Breen, G. M. (2012). An Examination of Pack Journalism as a Form of Groupthink: A Theoretical and Qualitative Analysis. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, 22(7), 896–915. https://doi.org/10.1080/10911359.2012.707933

[18] Mok, A., & Morris, M. W. (2010). An upside to bicultural identity conflict: Resisting groupthink in cultural ingroups. Journal of Experimental Social Psychology, 46(6), 1114–1117.

[19] Moorhead, G., Neck, C. P., & West, M. S. (1998). The tendency toward defective decision making within self-managing teams: The relevance of groupthink for the 21st century. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes, 73(2–3), 327–351. https://doi.org/10.1006/obhd.1998.2765

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[21] Őnday, Ő. (2016). Human resource theory: From Hawthorne experiments of Mayo to groupthink of Janis. Global Journal of Human Resource Management, 4(1), 95–110.

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[36] Warfield, J. N. (1995). Spreadthink: Explaining ineffective groups. Systems Research, 12(1), 5–14. https://doi.org/10.1002/sres.3850120104

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