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View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Andrew Pilny, Yannick Catouba, Jinseok Kim, Macarena Peña-y-Lillo, Katherine R. Cooper, Ariann Sahagun, Sijia Yang Communication network research is increasingly being used across the communication discipline. However, most social network research is limited in its generalizability because it focuses on either a single network case or ego-centric network data. In order to generate knowledge across network studies, a mechanism is needed to synthesize. This

View the Resource By Jennifer Ihm, Macarena Pena-Y-Lillo, Katherine R Cooper, Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate, Julia Bello-Bravo, Niango Malick Ba, CléMentine L Dabire-Binso, Barry Robert Pittendrigh Development campaigns designed to scale up effective agricultural solutions often rely on media. Information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) proponents argue that increased media penetration is necessary for such campaigns to succeed. Interviews of 63 extension agents and 200 farmers in Burkina Faso

View the Resource By Sophia Fu, Michelle Shumate This study examines a hyperlink network among non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in China. Using social media activity, indicated by the presence of a profile, length of time since social media adoption, number of accounts followed, and number of posts, we investigate NGOs’ hyper linking behaviors from a holistic media ecology perspective. Drawing from homophily and resource dependence theory, this research aims to understand NGOs’

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Yannick Atouba, Katherine R. Cooper, Andrew Pilny This research examines the antecedents that motivate and prepare social entrepreneurs to begin social ventures. Drawing from in-depth interviews with 20 social entrepreneurs, this research reveals that there are two paths to social entrepreneurship: the activist path and the business path. Both activist and business social entrepreneurs were motivated by a family legacy or a transformative early

View the Resource By Jennifer Ihm, Michelle Shumate, Julia Bello-Bravo, Yannick Atouba, Niango Malick Ba, Clementine L. Dabire-Binso, Barry R. Pittendrigh Interorganizational networks within organizational fields are important structures for both internal stakeholders, who must navigate them as part of their organizational roles, and external stakeholders, who navigate them for the purposes of resource exchange. This research develops and tests a conceptual model that explains some of the differences in

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate, Noshir Contractor Organizational communication as a field of study has grown tremendously over the past thirty years. This growth is characterized by the development and application of communication perspectives to research on complex organizations in rapidly changing environments. Completely re-conceptualized, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, Third Edition, is a landmark volume that weaves together the various threads of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship.