A studty on groupthink for online community of Korea and Vietnam

Abstract

Groupthink phenomenon has been studying widely by a number of authors in the literature 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. A majority of authors have studied this phenomenon for offline groups. Nowadays, with the development of science and technology, many people often study and work via the Internet with online communities. Therefore, this paper studies phenomenon of Groupthink that may affect the quality of decision making for online communities, and explores how difference between two countries Korea and Vietnam. According to our analysis, Cohesion of a group does not affect closed-mindedness of the group and Provocative situational context does not affect Overestimation of the group in both of the two countries. A difference is that Overestimation of the group does not affect to Symptoms of defective decision-making in Vietnam online communities but it does affect in Korea online communities. The results obtained in this study are significant and essential for future researches about online communities between the two countries. © 2017 International Information Institute.