Publications, SONIC

Publications

Manuscripts In Review

Huang, M., Huang, Y., Margolin, D., Ognyanova, K. & Shen, C., & Contractor, N.S.. Size, diversity, & beyond: A mediated model of team composition and performance in “team science”.
Huang, M., Barbour, J., Su, C., & Contractor N.S. Why would you save your files in a group folder? A multilevel analysis of contextual influences on information provision to work group digital databases.
Bajcsy, R., Rubin P., Bertenthal, B. , Bimber, B., Contractor, N., Finholt, T., Franklin, K., Liberman, M., Mebane, W., Pearce, C., Scacchi, W., Teitelbaum, B., Urban M., Cyberinfrastructure-mediated interaction. National Science Foundation workshop on cyberinfrastructure for the social sciences. Available online at: http://vis.sdsc.edu/sbe/reports/Report%20--%20CI%20Mediated.pdf
Contractor, N (March, 2005). The role of social network analysis in enabling cyberinfrastructure and the role of cyberinfrastructure in enabling social network analysis. White paper prepared for the National Science Foundation workshop on cyberinfrastructure for the Social Sciences, Airlie House, Warrington, Virginia, USA.
Palazzolo, E. T., Serb, D., She, Y., Su, C., & Contractor, N. S. Co-evolution of communication and knowledge networks as transactive memory systems: Using computational models for theoretical integration and extensions.
Contractor, N., Fonti, F., Steglich, C., Su, C., and Whitbred, R. Understanding the ties that bind: A longitudinal investigation of the evolution of a communication network.
Contractor, N., Brandon, D., Huang, M., Palazzolo, E. T., Steinley, D., Su, C., Suri, R., Swarbrick, A., Templin, J., & Wasserman, S. Multi-Theoretical Multilevel Models of Information Retrieval in Knowledge Networks.
Contractor, N. S., Whitbred, R., Fonti, F., Hyatt, A., O’Keefe, B., & Jones, P. Structuration theory and the evolution of networks.
Contractor, N. S., Stohl, C., Monge, P. R., Flanagin, A., & Fulk, J. Communication in the global workplace: Advanced E-Quad collaboration tools to support multi-university cooperative learning and teaching.

Other Publications

Books

Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (2003). Theories of Communication Networks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Current Drafts:
Contractor, N. Section Editor for “New Media and Organizing” for Handbook of New Media: Social Shaping and Consequences of ICTs (pp. 201-205) (Editors: Leah Lievrouw & Sonia Livingstone), London: Sage.

Journal Articles

Su, C., Huang, M. & Contractor, N. (forthcoming January 2010). Understanding the structures, antecedents, and outcomes of organizational learning and knowledge transfer: A multi-theoretical and multilevel network analysis. European Journal of International Management.
Varda, D., Forgette, R., Banks, D., & Contractor, N. (2009). Social Network Methodology in the Study of Disasters: Issues and Insights Prompted by Post-Katrina Research. Population Research and Policy Review, 28(1), 11-29.
Contractor, N. (2009). The Emergence of Multidimensional Networks, Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication 14(3), 743-747.
Huang, Y., Contractor, N., & Yao, Y. (2008). CI-KNOW: Recommendation based on Social Networks. Proceedings of DG.O 2009 annual conference for Digital Government, Montreal.
Neumeyer, X., Contractor, N., & K. Ehmann, K. (2008). Collaboration Networks in Micromanufacturing, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Micromanufacturing, Pittsburgh, PA, 2008.
Vogenbeck Varda, D., R., Forgette, R., Banks, D., & Contractor, N. (in press). Social network methodology in the study of disasters: Issues and insights prompted by post-Katrina research. Population Research & Policy Review.
Contractor, N., Wasserman, S., & Faust, K. (2006). Testing multi-theoretical multilevel hypotheses about organizational networks: An analytic framework and empirical example. Academy of Management Review.
N. S. Contractor, “Order to Chaos Versus Chaos to Order,” Journal of Communication 44, no. 3 (2006): 135-136.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2004). Network theory and small groups. Small Group Research, 35, 307-332. also available at: www.gateway.ingenta.com/patron/shopping/cart/ShoppingCart/ilurbana;jsessionid=m14ab5hrr4xi.crescent
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2002). Managing knowledge networks. Management Communication Quarterly, 16, 249-258.
Fesenmaier, J., & Contractor, N. (2001) Inquiring Knowledge Networks on the Web (IKNOW): The evolution of knowledge networks for rural development. The Journal of the Community Development Society, 32, 160-175.
Pollock, T., Whitbred, R. A., & Contractor, N. (2000). Social information processing and job characteristics: A simultaneous test of two theories with implications for job satisfaction. Human Communication Research, 26(2), 292-330.
Contractor, N. S. (1999). Self-organizing systems research in the social sciences: Reconciling the metaphors and the models. Management Communication Quarterly, 13, 154-166.
Heald, M., Contractor, N., Koehly, L. M., & Wasserman, S. (1998). Formal and emergent predictors of coworkers’ perceptual congruence on an organization’s social structure. Human Communication Research, 24, 536-563.
Ehrlich, M.C., & Contractor, N.S. (1998). "Shock" meets "community service": J.C. Corcoran at KMOX. Journal of Radio Studies 5(1), 22-35.
Hyatt, A., Contractor, N., & Jones, P. M. (1997). Computational organizational network modeling: Strategies and an example. Computational and Mathematical Organizational Theory, 4, 285-300.
Jacobs, J. L., Dorneich, M. C., Jones, P. M., O'Keefe, B. J. and Contractor, N. (1997). SPOT: Using collaborative technologies for developing collaborative technologies. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 690-695. Orlando FL, October 1997.
Jones, P. M., Chin, G., Lucenti, M., Kim, H-J., Stigberg, D., Sherman, G., Contractor, N., O'Keefe, B. J., Whitbred, R., Grobler, F., Case, M., Heckel, J., Lu, S. C-Y. and Ganeshan, R. (1997). CITYSCAPE: Civil infostructure technology system for collaborative analysis, prediction, and evaluation. Proceedings of the 1997 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 3, 2223-2227. Orlando FL, October 1997.
Contractor, N. S., Seibold, D. R., & Heller, M. A. (1996). Interactional influence in the structuring of media use in groups: Influence of members’ perceptions of group decision support system use. Human Communication Research, 22, 451-481.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O'Keefe, B., Lu, S., Case, M., Lawrence, P. & Grobler, F. (1995). Workflow and cooperative problem solving in civil infrastructure management. Proceedings of the IEEE 1995 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 5, 4575-4580. Vancouver, British Columbia Canada.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., Lu, S. C-Y., & O'Keefe, B. J. (1994). Intelligent collaborative support for engineering design. Proceedings of the 12th Triennial Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA '94), 4, 80 - 82. Toronto, Ontario, August 1994.
Jones, P. M., Contractor, N., O'Keefe, B. & Lu, S. C-Y. (1994). Competence models and self-organizing systems: Towards intelligent, evolvable, collaborative support. Proceedings of the IEEE 1994 International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1, 367-372. San Antonio TX, October 1994.
Contractor, N. S., & Seibold, D. R. (1993). Theoretical frameworks for the study of structuring processes in group decision support systems: Adaptive structuration theory and self-organizing systems theory. Human Communication Research, 19, 528-563.
Contractor, N., & Ehrlich, M. (1993). Strategic ambiguity in the birth of an organization: The $50 Million Experiment. Management Communication Quarterly, 6, 251-281.
Michaelson, A., & Contractor, N. (1992). Structural position and perceived similarity. Social Psychology Quarterly, 55, 300-310.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y, & O'Keefe, B. (1992). Consensus management in engineering design. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, & Cybernetics.
Monge, P. R., Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1992). Communication and motivational predictors of the dynamics of organizational innovation. Organization Science , 3, 250-274.
Case, M., Contractor, N., Jones, P. M., Lu, S. C-Y., & O'Keefe, B. J. (1992). Team engineering analysis and modeling: Toward a normative model of team interaction. Proceedings of the 1992 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Chicago IL, October 1992.
Waterman, D., Schechter, R., & Contractor, N. (1991). Overcoming barriers to the live arts: Can the media compensate? Journal of Cultural Economics, 15, 19-40.
Rice, R., & Contractor, N. S. (1990). Conceptualizing effects of office information systems: A methodology and application for the study of alpha, beta and gamma change. Decision Science, 21, 301-317.
Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1988). Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India. Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media , 32 , 2, 129-148.
Cozzens, M. D., & Contractor, N. S. (1987). The effect of conflicting information on media skepticism. Communication Research, 14 , 437-451.
Contractor, N. S., Fulk, J., Monge, P. R., & Singhal, A. (1986). Cultural assumptions that influence the implementation of communication technologies. Vikalpa, 11, 287-300.

Book Chapters

Provan, K., & Contractor, N. (in press). Understanding and managing stakeholder networks. In National Cancer Institute, Greater than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control. Tobacco Control Monograph No. 18. Bethesda, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute. NIH Pub. No. 06-6085.
Hollingshead, A. B., & Contractor, N. S. (2006). New media and small group organizing. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media: Student Edition. (pp. 114-133). London: Sage.
Katz, N., Lazer, D., Arrow, H., & Contractor, N. (2005). The network perspective on small groups: Theory and research. In Poole, M. S. & Hollingshead, A.B. (Eds.) Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (pp.277-312). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. (2003). Peer to peer. In S. Jones (Ed.), Encyclopedia of New Media. (pp. 367-369). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., & Monge, P. R. (2003). Using multi-theoretical multilevel models to study adversarial networks. In R. Brelger, K. Carley & P. Pattison (Eds.), Dynamic Social Network Modeling and Analysis: Workshop Summary and Papers (pp. 324-344). Washington D.C.: National Research Council. Available online at: http://books.nap.edu/books/0309089522/html/324.html#pagetop
Hollingshead, A. B., & Contractor, N. S. (2002). New media and organizing at the group level. In S. Livingstone & L. Lievrouw (Eds.), Handbook of New Media (pp. 221-235). London: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Baldwin, C. (2001). Adoption of communication technologies and the evolution of communication networks in organizations. In V. Burton, D. Herr, & T. Finnegan (Eds.), Wayfarer: Charting Advances in Social Science Computing (CD). Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press.
Monge, P.R., & Contractor, N.S. (2001). Emergence of communication networks. In F.M. Jablin & L.L. Putnam (Eds.), New Handbook of Organizational Communication (pp. 440-502). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Shapiro, M. A., Lang, A., Hamilton, M., & Contractor, N. S. (2001). Information systems division: Intra-personal, meaning, attitude and social systems. In W. Gudykunst (Ed.), Communication Yearbook 24 (pp. 17-49). Newbury Park: Sage.
Contractor, N., & Bishop, A. P. (2000). Reconfiguring community networks: The case of PrairieKNOW. In T. Ishida (Ed.), Digital Cities: Technologies, Experiences, and Future Perspectives (pp. 151-164). Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Contractor, N., Bishop, A. , & Zink, D. (1999). PrairieKNOW: A tool to assist the study, creation, and growth of community networks. In H-J. Bullinger & J. Ziegler (Eds.), Proceedings of HCI International ’99 (the 8th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction), Munich, Germany, Volume 2, (pp. 447-451). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Elrbaum.
Contractor N., Zink, D., & Chan, M. (1998). IKNOW: A tool to assist and study the creation, maintenance, and dissolution of knowledge networks. In Toru Ishida (Ed.), Community Computing and Support Systems, Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1519 (pp. 201-217). Berlin: Springer-Verlag.
Contractor, N. S., & Whitbred, R. (1997). Decision development in work groups: A comparison of contingency and self-organizing systems perspectives. In G. Barnett (Ed.), Organizational Communication: Emerging perspectives (pp. 83-104). New York: Ablex.
Contractor, N., & O’Keefe, B. J. (1997). The politics of information systems: Rational designs and organizational realities. In B. Davenport Sypher (Ed.) Case Studies in Organizational Communication: Perspectives on Contemporary Work Life (pp. 203-218). New York: Guilford Publications.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. (1996). Communication networks. In A. Kuper & J. Kuper (Eds.) The Social Science Encyclopedia - Edition 2. London: Routledge.
Contractor, N. S., & Grant, S. (1996). The emergence of shared interpretations in organizations: A self-organizing systems perspective. In J. Watt & A. VanLear (Eds.), Cycles and Dynamic Processes in Communication Processes (pp. 216-230). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. (1994). Self-organizing systems perspective in the study of organizational communication. In B Kovacic (Ed.) New Approaches to Organizational Communication (pp. 39-65).Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Seibold, D., Heller, M. A., & Contractor, N. (1994). Group Decision Support System (GDSS): Review, taxonomy, and research agenda. In B Kovacic (Ed.) Organizational Communication: New perspectives (pp. 143-168). Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
Seibold, D., & Contractor, N. (1993). Commentary on "Issues for a theory of high-speed management” by D. Cushman and E. King. In Communication Yearbook 16 (pp. 237-246). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., Singhal, A., & Rogers, E. M. (1992). Metatheoretical perspectives on satellite television and development in India. In K. S. Nair & S. A. White (Eds.), Perspectives on development communication. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Contractor, N. S., & Eisenberg, E. M. (1990). Communication networks and new media in organizations. In J. Fulk & C. W. Steinfield (Eds.) Organizations and Communication Technology (pp. 145-174). Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Monge, P. R., & Contractor, N. S. (1988). Communication networks: Measurement techniques. In C. H. Tardy (Ed.), A Handbook for the Study of Human Communication: Methods and Instruments for Observing, Measuring, and Assessing Communication Processes (pp. 107-138). Norwood, NJ: Ablex.

Magazine Articles

Contractor, N. (1999). Tecnologia e "colletti aperti" Il Sole 24 Ore (Italian Financial Daily).

Book Reviews

Contractor, N. (2001). Review of Small Worlds: The Dynamics of Networks Between Order and Randomness, by Duncan J. Watts, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. Chance, 14, 33-36.
Contractor, N. (1992). Review of Research and Reflexivity edited by F. Steier. Journal of Communication, 42, 196-199.
Contractor, N. S. (1992). Review of A Self-Renewing Society: The Role of Television and Communications Technology by N. D. Batra. Journalism Quarterly, 69, 227-228.