Marshall Scott Poole
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 189652 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Marshall Scott Poole |
| PRENOMES | Marshall Scott |
| SOBRENOME | Poole |
| ASSINATURA | POOLE M S |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2073-5595 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 304 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 3 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Organizational Communication Theory and Research
The Handbook of Organizational Communication Theory and Research offers concise, but thorough reviews of important research on traditional and emerging areas in organizational communication. Section One, Theory and Methods , provides an overview of the field’s history, prominent theories, and methodologies. Section Two, Processes , focuses on primal processes, such as leadership, organizational entry, conflict, power, and inclusion. Section Three…
A tutorial for modeling the evolution of network dynamics for multiple groups
Researchers have been increasingly taking advantage of the stochastic actor-oriented modeling framework as a method to analyze the evolution of network ties. Although the framework has proven to be a useful method to model longitudinal network data, it is designed to analyze a sample of one bounded network. For group and team researchers, this can be a significant limitation because such researchers often collect data on more than one team. This …
The Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Organizational change and innovation are central and enduring issues in management theory and practice. The need to understand processes of organization change and innovation has never been greater in order to respond to dramatic changes in population demographics, technology, stakeholder needs, competitive survival, and social, economic, environmental, health, and sustainability concerns. These concerns call for a better understanding of managin…
Oxford Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation
Revisiting the accuracy problem in network analysis using a unique dataset
Team Coordination in Uncertain Environments
The ways in which teams coordinate are critical to navigating today's turbulent environment. Communication networks have been theorized to be a key factor for accomplishing team coordination. However, empirical research has largely taken a static approach by viewing communication networks as material, structural arrangements, which we call structural communication networks (SCNs). Informed by network structuration theory, we articulate a compleme…
A structurational group decision-making perspective on the commons dilemma
To expand upon perspectives on the commons dilemma, we developed an online experiment grounded in David Seibold and colleagues’ structurational perspective on group decision-making. We created manipulations based on three modalities of structure: dense versus sparse networks (domination), collective versus individual identity (signification), and social sanction versus non-social sanction (legitimation). The results revealed that modalities of si…
Step by step
The emergence of group constructs is an unfolding process, whereby actions and interactions coalesce into collective psychological states. Implicitly, there is a connection between these states and the underlying procession of events. The manner in which interactions follow one another over time describe a group's behavior, with different temporal patterns being indicative of different team characteristics. In this study, we explicitly connect ev…
Models of Communication
Communication models, some famous and widely influential, have represented and guided communication theories and their application since the field's early days. Topics covered here include the definition of models as translations of conceptions or theories into systemic forms that are representative of a focal real domain, in some way and for some purpose ; the nature, construction, and evaluation of models; and the three main types of models: mo…
Health Care Teams
Communications Technology
Communication technologies are increasingly important to the operation and integration of organizations. This article discusses dimensions underlying communication technologies and their potential for and impacts on organizations.
Communication
Communication is a central process in the constitution of organizations. Formal and informal communication serves several important functions including command and control, linking, innovation, interorganizational linkage, ideation, and ideology.
On the Study of Process in Communication Research
One of the defining characteristics of communication is that it is a process. Yet the vast majority of studies of communication do not focus on process, but rather on static models and explanations. This essay develops a conception of process research in the social scientific study of communication that distinguishes it from traditional variance based research approaches. The process approach is based on the development of theoretical narratives …
Structuration Theory
Detecting interaction links in a collaborating group using manually annotated data
Focused on the prize
This study is the first large–scale multi–method attempt to empirically examine the characteristics leading to development of expertise in EverQuest II, a popular massively multi–player online role–playing game (MMOs). Benefiting from the unprecedented opportunity of obtaining game log data matched with survey data, the project investigated the relationship between player motivations and in–game behavior, personality characteristics, and demograp…
The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium
The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the study of communication-related behaviors using data from massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). In a partnership with a corporation that hosts an MMO, a 20-person team of scholars is engaged in the study of behavior within a game and also game activities that parallel those in “real life” (e.g., economic activity, social networking, group processes). A key aspect…
Schmoozing and Smiting
This study examines how trust is related to online social institutions, self-disclosure, mode of communication, and message privacy in a popular MMOG, Everquest II. The findings, based on survey and behavioral data from over 3,500 players, illustrate how MMOGs may support trust development. Trust was higher within closer social circles: trust was highest in teammates, followed by other players across the game, followed by others online. Self-disc…
Collaboration, Integration, and Transformation
In today's world, with so much of people's everyday interaction dependent on technology and its functions, learning how to use technology to communicate, research, and interact effectively with others is now, more than ever, at a premium. We may safely assume that future technological reliance will not decrease or diminish anytime soon. As such, it is to the benefit of all communication and information technology scholars to understand how to use…
The Evolution of Organizational Communication
Organizational communication, by its very definition, constitutes an intersection, one that exists between the study of human communication and the study of human organization (Farace, Monge, & Russell, 1977). Several intellectual perspectives have influenced how this intersection has been studied and the knowledge claims established. These include (a) the cultural, interpretive perspective (Putnam & Pacanowsky, 1983), (b) the critical, postmoder…
Generalization in Process Theories of Communication
Communication is a process and should be explained as such. Process theories differ from traditional variance theories in that they focus on explaining how a process unfolds over time as a series of events, such as a sequence of stages or a dialectic. Process explanations are couched in terms of formal and final causality in addition to the efficient causality that is essential to variance-based explanations. As a result, the criteria governing g…
Theories of Small Groups
Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change
Scholars hold different views about whether organizations consist of things or processes and about variance or process methods for conducting research. By combining these two dimensions, we develop a typology of four approaches for studying organizational change. Although the four approaches may be viewed as opposing or competing views, we see them as being complementary. Each approach focuses on different questions and provides a different - but…
Handbook of organizational change and innovation
"The last two decades have been a time of ferment in research on organizational change and innovation. This blossoming of research and theory has been stimulated in large part by concurrent major social changes. Organizations have been growing larger in vertical and virtual connections, merging and acquiring others with colliding cultures, reducing employment and relying on more temporary workers, hiring more technical and professional workers, i…
Idea-Generation in Naturally Occurring Contexts
This study examined naturally occurring idea-generation in organizational groups completing an extended problem-solving task. Meetings held by 11 groups engaged in a quality improvement process in a governmental agency were analyzed to identify 37 idea-generation episodes. All groups had available a group decision support system (GDSS), although some opted not to use it. Across all groups, idea productivity was low though fairly efficient, but GD…
Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change
Scholars hold different views about whether organizations consist of things or processes and about variance or process methods for conducting research. By combining these two dimensions, we develop a typology of four approaches for studying organizational change. Although the four approaches may be viewed as opposing or competing views, we see them as being complementary. Each approach focuses on different questions and provides a different - but…
Group decision‐making as a structurational process
This essay presents a theory of group decision‐making. Utilizing recent advances in structuration theory, which focuses on the production and reproduction of social systems through the application of generative rules and resources, the new conceptualization is presented and its advantages over previous formulations are explored. Results from an ongoing research program are summarized as partial substantiation of the perspective
Decision Development in Small Groups IV A Typology of Group Decision Paths
This study develops a typology of decision paths through analysis of 47 recorded decisions. The sample included a wide variety of decisions made by a variety of groups. Recent research has questioned the traditional assumption that all normal groups follow a set, unitary sequence of decision stages. Instead, this research suggests groups may follow multiple sequences in making decisions. Some writers have gone so far as to deny the existence of p…
Decision development in small groups, III
This paper argues that traditional models of group decision making as a series of discrete, consecutive phases are inadequate. It advocates replacing them by a more complex and accurate model of continuously‐developing threads of group activity. In section I the phasic model is evaluated in view of recent research on decision development in small groups. To overcome several problems with the phasic model section II develops a new model, which con…
Decision Development in Small Groups V Test of a Contingency Model
Journal Article Decision Development in Small Groups V: Test of a Contingency Model Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonelle Roth Jonelle Roth 2Jonelle Roth (B.S., University of Illinois) is in the doctoral pro…
A comparison of normative and interactional explanations of group decision‐making
Research on group decision‐making in speech communication has assumed interaction processes are important determinants of group decisions. However, major psychological theories of group decision‐making challenge this assumption. This study tested a prominent social psychological theory, Davis's Social Decision Scheme Model, against an interaction‐based model of group decision‐making, the Valence Distribution Model recently developed by McPhee, Po…
Decision development in small groups I
This study compares two mutually exclusive models of small group decision‐making processes. The unitary sequence model—the classical model of decision development—assumes that all groups follow the same sequence of phases. The alternative, the multiple sequence model, assumes that different groups follow different sequences. The models were tested with data from two sets of groups: student groups performing a ranking task and groups of physicians…
A Method for Establishing the Representational Validity of Interaction Coding Systems
Journal Article A Method for Establishing the Representational Validity of Interaction Coding Systems: Do We See What They See? Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1980) is an assistant professor of speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph P. Folger Joseph P. Folger 2…
Decision development in small groups II
Poole's recent study of group decision‐making processes rejected the traditional unitary sequence model of decision development in which all decision‐making groups are assumed to follow a uniform set sequence of phases. It supported a multiple sequence model, which assumed different groups may have different sequences of phases. This study attempts to build on Poole's findings by presenting a detailed analysis of multiple decision sequences in tw…
Schmoozing and Smiting
This study examines how trust is related to online social institutions, self-disclosure, mode of communication, and message privacy in a popular MMOG, Everquest II. The findings, based on survey and behavioral data from over 3,500 players, illustrate how MMOGs may support trust development. Trust was higher within closer social circles: trust was highest in teammates, followed by other players across the game, followed by others online. Self-disc…
Decision Development in Computer-Assisted Group Decision Making
Journal Article Decision Development in Computer-Assisted Group Decision Making Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole is a professor of speech communication at Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael E. Holmes Michael E. Holmes 2Michael E. Holmes is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah, and is a visiting assistant profe…
Step by step
The emergence of group constructs is an unfolding process, whereby actions and interactions coalesce into collective psychological states. Implicitly, there is a connection between these states and the underlying procession of events. The manner in which interactions follow one another over time describe a group's behavior, with different temporal patterns being indicative of different team characteristics. In this study, we explicitly connect ev…
Generalization in Process Theories of Communication
Communication is a process and should be explained as such. Process theories differ from traditional variance theories in that they focus on explaining how a process unfolds over time as a series of events, such as a sequence of stages or a dialectic. Process explanations are couched in terms of formal and final causality in addition to the efficient causality that is essential to variance-based explanations. As a result, the criteria governing g…
The Valence Model Unveiled
The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium
The Virtual Worlds Exploratorium is a multidisciplinary project dedicated to the study of communication-related behaviors using data from massively multiplayer online games (MMOs). In a partnership with a corporation that hosts an MMO, a 20-person team of scholars is engaged in the study of behavior within a game and also game activities that parallel those in “real life” (e.g., economic activity, social networking, group processes). A key aspect…
On the Study of Process in Communication Research
One of the defining characteristics of communication is that it is a process. Yet the vast majority of studies of communication do not focus on process, but rather on static models and explanations. This essay develops a conception of process research in the social scientific study of communication that distinguishes it from traditional variance based research approaches. The process approach is based on the development of theoretical narratives …
Team Coordination in Uncertain Environments
The ways in which teams coordinate are critical to navigating today's turbulent environment. Communication networks have been theorized to be a key factor for accomplishing team coordination. However, empirical research has largely taken a static approach by viewing communication networks as material, structural arrangements, which we call structural communication networks (SCNs). Informed by network structuration theory, we articulate a compleme…
Change in Hierarchically Organized Attitudes
This study tests a theory of attitude change in hierarchies proposed by Hunter, Levine, and Sayers (1976). That theory was verified in that (a) messages input at the top of the hierarchy have an influence that is spread throughout the hierarchy by internal processes while (b) messages input at the bottom of the hierarchy have no effect on any attitude except the one at which the message was specifically directed and the specific effect “decays” b…
Behavior and Hierarchies of Attitudes
Relational Coding Schemes
Mathematical Modeling in Communication Research
(1981). Mathematical Modeling in Communication Research: An Overview. Annals of the International Communication Association: Vol. 5, Communication Yearbook 5, pp. 159-191
Decision development in small groups I
This study compares two mutually exclusive models of small group decision‐making processes. The unitary sequence model—the classical model of decision development—assumes that all groups follow the same sequence of phases. The alternative, the multiple sequence model, assumes that different groups follow different sequences. The models were tested with data from two sets of groups: student groups performing a ranking task and groups of physicians…
The Valence Model Unveiled
A Method for Establishing the Representational Validity of Interaction Coding Systems
Journal Article A Method for Establishing the Representational Validity of Interaction Coding Systems: Do We See What They See? Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D. University of Wisconsin, 1980) is an assistant professor of speech communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Joseph P. Folger Joseph P. Folger 2…
A comparison of normative and interactional explanations of group decision‐making
Research on group decision‐making in speech communication has assumed interaction processes are important determinants of group decisions. However, major psychological theories of group decision‐making challenge this assumption. This study tested a prominent social psychological theory, Davis's Social Decision Scheme Model, against an interaction‐based model of group decision‐making, the Valence Distribution Model recently developed by McPhee, Po…
Decision development in small groups II
Poole's recent study of group decision‐making processes rejected the traditional unitary sequence model of decision development in which all decision‐making groups are assumed to follow a uniform set sequence of phases. It supported a multiple sequence model, which assumed different groups may have different sequences of phases. This study attempts to build on Poole's findings by presenting a detailed analysis of multiple decision sequences in tw…
Decision development in small groups, III
This paper argues that traditional models of group decision making as a series of discrete, consecutive phases are inadequate. It advocates replacing them by a more complex and accurate model of continuously‐developing threads of group activity. In section I the phasic model is evaluated in view of recent research on decision development in small groups. To overcome several problems with the phasic model section II develops a new model, which con…
Group decision‐making as a structurational process
This essay presents a theory of group decision‐making. Utilizing recent advances in structuration theory, which focuses on the production and reproduction of social systems through the application of generative rules and resources, the new conceptualization is presented and its advantages over previous formulations are explored. Results from an ongoing research program are summarized as partial substantiation of the perspective
Decision Development in Small Groups V Test of a Contingency Model
Journal Article Decision Development in Small Groups V: Test of a Contingency Model Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole (Ph.D., University of Wisconsin) is Associate Professor of Speech-Communication at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jonelle Roth Jonelle Roth 2Jonelle Roth (B.S., University of Illinois) is in the doctoral pro…
Decision Development in Small Groups IV A Typology of Group Decision Paths
This study develops a typology of decision paths through analysis of 47 recorded decisions. The sample included a wide variety of decisions made by a variety of groups. Recent research has questioned the traditional assumption that all normal groups follow a set, unitary sequence of decision stages. Instead, this research suggests groups may follow multiple sequences in making decisions. Some writers have gone so far as to deny the existence of p…
On the Joys and Sorrows of Predicting the Future of Organizational Communication
Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use
The past decade has brought advanced information technologies, which include electronic messaging systems, executive information systems, collaborative systems, group decision support systems, and other technologies that use sophisticated information management to enable multiparty participation in organization activities. Developers and users of these systems hold high hopes for their potential to change organizations for the better, but actual …
Explaining Development and Change in Organizations
Decision Development in Computer-Assisted Group Decision Making
Journal Article Decision Development in Computer-Assisted Group Decision Making Get access Marshall Scott Poole, Marshall Scott Poole 1Marshall Scott Poole is a professor of speech communication at Texas A&M University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Michael E. Holmes Michael E. Holmes 2Michael E. Holmes is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Utah, and is a visiting assistant profe…
Working Through Conflict
This fully updated ninth edition provides an introduction to conflict and conflict management that is firmly grounded in current theory, research, and practice. Covering a range of conflict settings, including interpersonal, group, and organizational conflicts, it includes an abundance of real-life case studies that encompass a spectrum of theoretical perspectives. Its emphasis on application makes it highly accessible to students, while expandin…
Do conflict management styles affect group decision making? Evidence from a longitudinal field study
This study examined the relationship between group conflict management styles and effectiveness of group decision making in 11 ongoing, naturally occurring workgroups from 2 large U.S. organizations. The major postulate of the study was that groups develop norms regarding how they will manage conflicts that carry over to affect other activities, such as decision making, even when these activities do not involve open conflict. To determine the imp…
Idea-Generation in Naturally Occurring Contexts
This study examined naturally occurring idea-generation in organizational groups completing an extended problem-solving task. Meetings held by 11 groups engaged in a quality improvement process in a governmental agency were analyzed to identify 37 idea-generation episodes. All groups had available a group decision support system (GDSS), although some opted not to use it. Across all groups, idea productivity was low though fairly efficient, but GD…
Organizational Innovation
This volume is the result of a three-year study that investigated the factors associated with the implementation of program changes in a nonprofit community welfare agency. It addresses factors such as administration behavior and perception, its effect on board members, mobility orientation, job satisfaction, and the prediction of program change and will be of interest to management in both the private and non-profit sector as well as students of…
Handbook of organizational change and innovation
"The last two decades have been a time of ferment in research on organizational change and innovation. This blossoming of research and theory has been stimulated in large part by concurrent major social changes. Organizations have been growing larger in vertical and virtual connections, merging and acquiring others with colliding cultures, reducing employment and relying on more temporary workers, hiring more technical and professional workers, i…
Theories of Small Groups
Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change
Scholars hold different views about whether organizations consist of things or processes and about variance or process methods for conducting research. By combining these two dimensions, we develop a typology of four approaches for studying organizational change. Although the four approaches may be viewed as opposing or competing views, we see them as being complementary. Each approach focuses on different questions and provides a different - but…
Generalization in Process Theories of Communication
Communication is a process and should be explained as such. Process theories differ from traditional variance theories in that they focus on explaining how a process unfolds over time as a series of events, such as a sequence of stages or a dialectic. Process explanations are couched in terms of formal and final causality in addition to the efficient causality that is essential to variance-based explanations. As a result, the criteria governing g…
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