Marshall Scott Poole (born 1951) is an American

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er and professor of communication at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Unive ...

Biography

Poole received his BA in Communication Arts at the

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in 1973, his MA in Communication at the

Michigan State University Michigan State University (Michigan State, MSU) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in East Lansing, Michigan. It was founded in 1855 as the Agricultural College of the State of Michigan, the fi ...

in 1976, and back at the University of Wisconsin-Madison his PhD in Communication Arts in 1980 with a minor in Management. Marshall Scott Poole CV
2013. Accessed November 11, 2013. Poole started his academic career in 1979 as assistant professor in the Department of Speech Communication of the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Uni ...

. In 1985 he moved to the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

, where he started as assistant professor, became associate professor in 1987, and professor at the Department of Speech-Communication from 1991 to 1995. From 1989-1993 he was also adjunct professor at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Policy of the University of Minnesota. In 1995 he moved to the

Texas A&M University Texas A&M University (Texas A&M, A&M, or TAMU) is a public, land-grant, research university in College Station, Texas. It was founded in 1876 and became the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System in 1948. As of late 2021, T ...

, where he was professor of communication from 1995 to 2006, and also professor of information and operations management from 2001 to 2006. In 2006 he returned to the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as professor of communication and senior research scientist in the National Center for Supercomputing Applications. He was one of the principal investigators of the Virtual Worlds Observatory project along with

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, Jaideep Srivastava and Dmitri Williams.

Publications

Poole authored and co-authored many publications.Marshall Scott Poole
Google scholar profile. Books, a selection: * Beck, Stephenson J., Joann Keyton, and Marshall Scott Poole, eds. The Emerald Handbook of Group and Team Communication Research. Emerald Group Publishing, 2021. * Marshall Scott Poole,

Andrew H. Van de Ven Andrew H. Van de Ven (1945 – April 30, 2022) was an American organization scholar, and Professor Emeritus in the Carlson School of Management of the University of Minnesota. Biography Andrew H. Van de Ven received his bachelor's degree in ...

, and

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(2000) ''Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research.'' New York: Oxford University Press. * Marshall Scott Poole and

(eds.) (2004) ''Handbook of Organizational Change and Innovation.'' New York: Oxford University Press. Articles, a selection: *

DeSanctis, Gerardine Gerardine L. (Gerry) DeSanctis (January 5, 1954 – August 16, 2005) was an American organizational theorist and information systems researcher and Thomas F. Keller Professor of Business Administration at Duke University, known for her work on g ...

, and Marshall Scott Poole.
Capturing the complexity in advanced technology use: Adaptive structuration theory
" ''Organization science'' 5.2 (1994): 121-147. * Van de Ven, Andrew H., and Marshall Scott Poole.
Explaining development and change in organizations
" ''Academy of management review'' 20.3 (1995): 510-540. * Van de Ven, Andrew H., Harold L. Angle, and Marshall Scott Poole, eds. Research on the management of innovation: The Minnesota studies. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. * Ahmad, Muhammad Aurangzeb, David Huffaker, Jing Wang, Jeff Treem, Marshall Scott Poole, and Jaideep Srivastava. "GTPA: A generative model for online mentor-apprentice networks." In Twenty-Fourth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2010. * Schecter, Aaron, Andrew Pilny, Alice Leung, Marshall Scott Poole, and

. "Step by step: Capturing the dynamics of work team process through relational event sequences." Journal of Organizational Behavior 39, no. 9 (2018): 1163-1181.

References

External links

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