Open and Rigid Communication Networks
Barry Shane · Small Group Behavior · 1979
This study was designed in anticipation that the inconsistent findings throughout the Communication Networks literature could be resolved by including individual learning and reinforcement into the CNE paradigm during long periods of problem solving, The results indicated little differences in productivity between networks in the long run solution rates through time and rates of pattern formation throughout the time series. As the findings of this study suggest, problem solving is composed of transition states in learning, Therefore, rather than being concerned with tests of significance and using large samples for short time periods a more effective strategy would be to examine smaller samples for a rather extended time period.