Abstract

Studies of spreadsheet usage have revealed that spreadsheeting is very often a cooperative activity. How a group cooperates may be an important factor in its success at pooling domain and programming knowledge of the individual members to produce an error-free spreadsheet. This study compares individual and group spreadsheet development with an expected performance measure from Lorge and Solomon's model for groups solving eureka-type problems. It found evidence that same place-same time meetings may reduce a group's effectiveness suggesting that different place or different time interaction may be better for cooperative spreadsheet development. 1. INTRODUCTION Spreadsheeting is one of the two most important personal computer applications [Panko, 1988]. Among managers, it is first in importance [Igbaria, 1992; Igbaria, Pavri, & Huff, 1989; Lee, 1986]. In one recent survey, senior information systems executives rated spreadsheeting as the application making the most significant contrib...

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