Peer Reviewed Research

Social Media Activity and Hyperlink Network Analysis: A Holistic Media Ecology Perspective

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’

Two Paths Diverged: Examining the Antecedents to Social Entrepreneurship

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

International Nonprofit Collaboration: Examining the Role of Homophily

View the Resource By Yannick Atouba, Michelle Shumate The importance and popularity of interorganizational collaboration among nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have grown considerably in recent years. Despite these growths, however, not much is known about why NGOs network the way they do or why NGO networks are structured the way they are. Using homophily theory and exponential random graph modeling, this study examines the patterns of interorganizational collaborative ties among infectious

How Do Internal and External Stakeholders Perceive Organizational Field-Nets?

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

Emergence of Multidimensional Social Networks

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.

The Evolution of the HIV/AIDS NGO Hyperlink Network

View the Resource By Michelle Shumate Hyperlink networks are dynamic systems of representational communication. In order to understand the varied influences on processes that produce these systems, this research examines the evolution of a HIV/AIDS nongovernmental organization (NGO) hyperlink network over one year. The results demonstrate that different factors influence the rate of variation, selection, and retention of hyperlinks. The presence of a greater number of corporate or government hyperlinks to