DOCTORAL DISSERTATION RESEARCH IN DRMS Collective Response to Scarcity: How the Resource Environment Shapes Social Networks

DRMS 集体应对稀缺性的博士论文研究：资源环境如何塑造社交网络

• 批准号: 2018173
• 负责人: Reid Hastie
• 金额: $ 3.92万
• 依托单位: University of Chicago
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2020
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2020-08-01 至 2021-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2018173&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: DOCTORAL; DISSERTATION; RESEARCH; DRMS; Collective

The success or failure of an organization hinges on its ability to effectively process information. Effective information processing requires people to acquire information themselves and to communicate with one another. The communication patterns that emerge from people’s choices about when, and with whom, to communicate have direct consequences for the speed at which information moves around an organization, and the validity of that information. These processes and factors are especially important for organizations responding to causal shocks or crises in their resource environments (e.g., financial actors facing the 2008 Housing Market Crash, all citizens facing the COVID-19 Pandemic).This Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) explores the communication networks that emerge among people reacting to changes in their resource environment. We apply an experimental method plus agent-based modeling to zero-in on the causal relationship between resource availability and communication network structure. Our overarching hypothesis is that when resources become increasingly scarce, people connect with fewer communication partners, and increase their rate of communication with each partner. Thus, social networks will shrink in size and become more densely connected in response to resource scarcity. The reverse pattern of communication occurs in times of abundance. We also assess the adaptive efficacy of these collective communication strategies in response to resource shocks to draw conclusions that will be helpful in designing and managing organizational responses to crises. The results of this investigation will help us understand, and anticipate, the way environmental shocks – like an economic recession or pandemic – affect an organization’s ability to effectively manage information.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

组织的成功或失败取决于其有效处理信息的能力。有效的信息处理要求人们自己获取信息并彼此沟通。人们从人们在何时和与谁进行交流的选择中得出的沟通模式对信息在组织周围移动的速度以及该信息的有效性的速度有直接的后果。这些过程和因素对于在其资源环境中应对灾难性冲击或犯罪的组织（例如，面临2008年住房市场崩溃的金融参与者，所有面临COVID-19的公民面临的covid-19大流行）的组织尤其重要。这些博士学位论文研究改进补助金（DDRIG）探讨了人们对资源的反应环境中的沟通网络探索的交流网络。我们将实验方法加上基于代理的建模应用于资源可用性和通信网络结构之间的因果关系零。我们的总体假设是，当资源变得越来越稀缺时，人们与更少的沟通伙伴联系，并提高与每个合作伙伴的沟通速度。因此，社交网络的规模会缩小，并因资源稀缺而变得更具应有的联系。沟通的反向模式发生在抽象时期。我们还评估了这些集体沟通策略的适应性效率，以应对资源冲击，以得出结论，这将有助于设计和管理对犯罪的组织响应。这项调查的结果将有助于我们理解和预期环境冲击（例如经济衰退或大流行）的方式影响组织有效管理信息的能力。该奖项反映了NSF的法定任务，并被认为是通过基金会的智力优点和更广泛的影响审查标准通过评估来评估的。