Noshir S Contractor

Biographic Data

ID85668
NAMENoshir S Contractor
GIVEN NAMESNoshir S
FAMILY NAMEContractor
SIGNATURECONTRACTOR N S
AFFILIATIONSNorthwestern University, Evanston, IL, USA
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS52
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1992
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
H-INDEX5

  • Social perception in Human-AI teams: Warmth and competence predict receptivity to AI teammates

    Open AccessAlexandra M Harris-Watson, Lindsay E Larson et al.ARTICLEComputers in Human Behavior2023

  • Leading teams over time through space: Computational experiments on leadership network archetypes

    Open AccessAlina Lungeanu, Leslie A Dechurch et al.ARTICLEThe Leadership Quarterly2022

  • Reprint of: Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field

    Open AccessAlina Lungeanu, Mark Mcknight et al.ARTICLESocial Networks2022References: 12

  • Using Trellis software to enhance high-quality large-scale network data collection in the field

    Open AccessAlina Lungeanu, Mark Mcknight et al.ARTICLESocial Networks2021

    Trellis is a mobile platform created by the Human Nature Lab at the Yale Institute for Network Science to collect high-quality, location-aware, off-line/online, multi-lingual, multi-relational social network and behavior data in hard-to-reach communities. Respondents use Trellis to identify their social contacts by name and photograph, a procedure especially useful in low-literacy populations or in contexts where names may be similar or confusing…

  • Space, time, and the development of shared leadership networks in multiteam systems

    Open AccessSophia Sullivan, SOPHIA D SULLIVAN et al.ARTICLENetwork Science2015Cited by: 1References: 7

    Digital technologies have created the potential for new forms of organizing among geographically dispersed individuals by connecting their ideas across the time and space in complex multiteam systems (MTSs). Realizing this potential requires novel forms of shared leadership structures to shepherd divergent and convergent thinking necessary to nurture innovation. While there is limited research on how space influences leadership and how the time i…

  • The Effects of Diversity and Network Ties on Innovations: The Emergence of a New Scientific Field

    Open AccessAlina Lungeanu, Noshir S Contractor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2015Cited by: 5References: 46

    This study examines the influence of different types of diversity, both observable and unobservable, on the creation of innovative ideas. Our framework draws on theory and research on information processing, social categorization, coordination, and homophily to posit the influence of cognitive, gender, and country diversity on innovation. Our longitudinal model is based on a unique data set of 1,354 researchers who helped create the new scientifi…

  • Motivations for self-assembling into project teams

    Open AccessMengxiao Zhu, Yun Huang et al.ARTICLESocial Networks2013

  • Testing Multitheoretical, Multilevel Hypotheses About Organizational Networks: An Analytic Framework and Empirical Example

    Noshir S Contractor, N Contractor et al.ARTICLEAcademy of Management Review2006

    Network forms of organization, unlike hierarchies or marketplaces, are agile and are constantly adapting as new links are added and dysfunctional ones dropped. We review some of the theoretical and methodological accomplishments and challenges of contemporary research on organizational networks. We then offer an analytic framework that can be used to specify and statistically test simultaneously multilevel, multitheoretical hypotheses about the s…

  • Coevolution of Communication and Knowledge Networks in Transactive Memory Systems: Using Computational Models for Theoretical Development

    Open AccessEdward T Palazzolo, Dana A Serb et al.ARTICLECommunication Theory2006Cited by: 8References: 6

    This study focuses on the initial conditions of work teams and the impacts of these conditions on the development of teams’ transactive memory (TM) systems through computational modeling. TM theory describes the conditions under which team members retrieve and allocate information to accomplish collective tasks. Previous research has shown evidence for teams developing TM systems over time, but field research does not allow for the extensive mani…

  • Formal and Emergent Predictors of Coworkers' Perceptual Congruence on an Organization's Social Structure

    Open AccessMaureen R Heald, Noshir S Contractor et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research1998Cited by: 3References: 43

    Journal Article Formal and Emergent Predictors of Coworkers' Perceptual Congruence on an Organization's Social Structure Get access Maureen R. Heald, Maureen R. Heald 1Maureen R. Heald is a graduate student of communication at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Noshir S. Contractor, Noshir S. Contractor 2Noshir S. Contractor (Ph.D., Annenberg School for Communica…

  • Interactional Influence in the Structuring of Media Use in Groups Influence in Members'Perceptions of Group Decision Support System Use

    Open AccessNoshir S Contractor, N Contractor et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research1996Cited by: 7References: 59

    Journal Article Interactional Influence in the Structuring of Media Use in Groups: Influence in Members' Perceptions of Group Decision Support System Use Get access Noshir S. Contractor, Noshir S. Contractor 1Noshir S. Contractor is an associate professor in the Department of Speech Communication, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David R. Seibold, David R. Seibold …

  • Order to Chaos versus Chaos to Order

    Open AccessNoshir S Contractor, N ContractorARTICLEJournal of Communication1994

    Journal Article Order to Chaos versus Chaos to Order Get access Noshir S. Contractor Noshir S. Contractor 1University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of Communication, Volume 44, Issue 3, September 1994, Pages 135–136, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1460-2466.1994.tb00692.x Published: 07 February 2006

  • Theoretical Frameworks for the Study of Structuring Processes in Group Decision Support Systems: Adaptive Structuration Theory and Self-Organizing Systems Theory

    Open AccessNoshir S Contractor, N Contractor et al.ARTICLEHuman Communication Research1993Cited by: 22References: 37

    Most theoretical perspectives used to explain the use and effects of communication and decision support technologies assume some form of technological determinism. Inconsistencies in the research findings have prompted theorists to reject the assumptions of technological determinism in favor of an emergent perspective. To date, only adaptive Structuration theory (AST) offers the promise of satisfying two requirements for explanation based on an e…

  • Structural Position and Perceived Similarity

    Alaina G Michaelson, Alaina Michaelson et al.ARTICLESocial Psychology Quarterly1992Cited by: 6

    Several alternative models of structural similarity, or positions, have been proposed. A wide variety of algorithms currently are employed to detect structural positions in a social network. The present work explores how these models correspond to the perception of interpersonal similarity. At the same time this work helps to explain how social structure may influence perceptions. Social network data were collected over 11 weeks in a class of 18 …