Marshall Scott Poole is David L. Swanson Professor of Communication, Director of the Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (I-CHASS), and Senior Research Scientist at the National Center for Supercomputing Application at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and Visiting Professor of Organization and Communication Studies at Vrije University, Amsterdam, Netherlands. Scott received his Ph.D in 1980 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Scott has taught at the University of Illinois, the University of Minnesota, and Texas A&M University. His research interests include group and organizational communication, information systems, collaboration technologies, organizational innovation, and theory construction. Scott is the author of over 150 articles, book chapters, and proceedings publications. His articles have appeared in Communication Monographs, Human Communication Research, Quarterly Journal of Speech, Communication Research, Small Group Research Management Science, Organization Science, Information Systems Research, MIS Quarterly, and Academy of Management Review, among others. Scott has co-authored or edited eleven books including Communication and Group Decision-Making, Theories of Small Groups: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Organizational Change and Innovation Processes: Theory and Methods for Research. Scott has been named a Fellow of the International Communication Association, a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, and is recipient of the Steven A. Chaffee Career Productivity Award from the International Communication and the Joseph E. McGrath Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Study of Groups from the Interdisciplinary Network for Group Research (INGRoup).
