Knowledge creation is an important competitive factor in many organizations. Focus groups are one way that organizations are using to create knowledge about new products, processes, and procedures. Group technologies, speci®cally face-to-face group support systems (GSS), make it possible to enhance knowledge creation in focus groups by capturing and enhancing more ideas. It is suggested that fa...

Facilitating patients' involvement with 12-step self-help organizations, such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) and Narcotics Anonymous (NA), is often a goal of substance abuse treatment. Twelve-step-facilitation (TSF) interventions have been found to be more effective than comparison treatments in increasing patients' 12-step group involvement and in promoting abstinence. Future TSF evaluation rese...

The wide spread of self-help groups (SHGs) in both urban and rural communities in Nigeria and the low empowerment of the members economically, socially, politically and psychologically raises a lot of questions about what exactly is happening, since the primary objective of forming the SHGs is to empower the members holistically. The overall aim of the paper is to identify and discuss the facto...