2026 Marshall Scott Poole: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	63	1139	999	527	452	221	32558

Overview

Marshall Scott Poole is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields, prominently including psychology and physics and astronomy.

The scientist's work covers several subfields such as statistical and nonlinear physics, strategy and management, social psychology, information systems and management, and sociology and political science.

Marshall Scott Poole's research themes focus on a range of topics related to social and organizational dynamics. These include:

Team Dynamics and Performance
Complex Network Analysis Techniques
Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence
Complex Systems and Decision Making
Innovation and Knowledge Management
Technology Adoption and User Behaviour
Digital Platforms and Economics

The scientist has published research in a number of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

Management Communication Quarterly
Industrial Management & Data Systems
Human Communication Research
The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
Social Networks

Some of the recent papers authored or co-authored by Marshall Scott Poole are:

"The future is now: calling for a focus on temporal issues in information system research," 2021, Industrial Management & Data Systems
"Tacking Amid Tensions: Using Oscillation to Enable Creativity in Diverse Teams," 2020, The Journal of Applied Behavioral Science
"Team Coordination in Uncertain Environments: The Role of Processual Communication Networks," 2020, Human Communication Research
"Revisiting the accuracy problem in network analysis using a unique dataset," 2021, Social Networks
"Groups, governance, and greed: the ACCESS world model," 2021, Computational and Mathematical Organization Theory

Collaboration is a significant part of Poole's research activities. Frequent co-authors include Luisa Ruge-Jones, Sam R. Wilson, William C. Barley, Andrew H. Van de Ven, and Andrew Pilny.

Best Publications

Explaining Development and Change in Organizations

Andrew H. Van De Ven;Marshall Scott Poole

6269
Citations
Capturing the Complexity in Advanced Technology Use: Adaptive Structuration Theory

Gerardine DeSanctis;Marshall Scott Poole

5800
Citations
Using Paradox to Build Management and Organization Theories

Marshall Scott Poole;Andrew H. Van de Ven

2278
Citations
Alternative Approaches for Studying Organizational Change

Andrew H. Van de Ven;Marshall Scott Poole

1516
Citations
Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research

Marshall Scott Poole;Andrew H. Van De Ven;Kevin Dooley;Michael E Holmes

1125
Citations
Understanding the use of Group Decision Support Systems: The Theory of Adaptive Structuration

Marshall Poole;Gerardine Desanctis

936
Citations
Research on the management of innovation : the Minnesota studies

Andrew H. Van de Ven;Harold L. Angle;Marshall Scott Poole

816
Citations
Methods for Studying Innovation Development in the Minnesota Innovation Research Program

Andrew H. Van de Ven;Marshall Scott Poole

721
Citations
Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation

Marshall Scott Poole;Marshall Scott Poole;Andrew H. Van de Ven

690
Citations
Using a GDSS to facilitate group consensus: some intended and unintended consequences

Richard T. Watson;Gerardine DeSanctis;Marshall Scott Poole

688
Citations
Group decision‐making as a structurational process

Marshall Scott Poole;David R. Seibold;Robert D. McPhee

626
Citations
Communication and Group Decision-Making

Randy Y. Hirokawa;Marshall Scott Poole;Marshall Scott Poole

486
Citations
Strategic Organizational Communication: In a Global Economy

Charles Conrad;Marshall Scott Poole;Marshall Scott Poole

486
Citations
Affect in web interfaces: a study of the impacts of web page visual complexity and order

Liqiong Deng;Marshall Scott Poole

480
Citations
A study of influence in computer-mediated group decision making

Ilze Zigurs;M. Scott Poole;Gerardine L. DeSanctis

465
Citations
Time, Change, and Development The Temporal Perspective on Groups

Holly Arrow;Marshall Scott Poole;Kelly Bouas Henry;Susan Wheelan

411
Citations
Decision Development in Small Groups IV A Typology of Group Decision Paths

Marshall Scott Poole;Jonelle Roth

402
Citations
Decision development in small groups: III. A multiple sequence model of group decision development.

Marshall Scott Poole

382
Citations
Antecedents of flow in online shopping: a test of alternative models

Yi Maggie Guo;Marshall Scott Poole

336
Citations
Conflict management in a computer-supported meeting in a computer supported meeting environment

Marshall Scott Poole;Michael Holmes;Gerardine Desanctis

317
Citations
What Is Personalization? Perspectives on the Design and Implementation of Personalization in Information Systems

Haiyan Fan;Marshall Scott Poole

251
Citations
Using a GDSS to Facilitate Group Consensus: some Intended and Unimtended Consequences.

Richard G. Watson;Gerardine DeSanctis;Marshall Scott Poole

2
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Noshir Contractor Northwestern University

Dmitri Williams University of Southern California

David R. Seibold University of California, Santa Barbara

Richard L. Moreland University of Pittsburgh

Peter R. Monge University of Southern California

John E. Hunter Michigan State University

Joseph N. Cappella University of Pennsylvania

Howard B. Kaplan Texas A&M University

Feniosky Peña-Mora Columbia University

Joseph E. McGrath University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

External Links

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