Research

Below is a selection of my research publications by topic.

Main Research: Organizing, Technology, and Identity

Endacott, C. G. (2025). Understanding organizational control through simulating a study of extreme workplace health promotion. Communication Teacher, 1-8.

Endacott, C. G., Millender, L., Duran, J., & Wilson, M. (2024). “None of us wanted to be at this party, but what a guest list”: How Technology Workers Position Themselves on LinkedIn Following Layoffs. Communication Research.

Endacott, C. G. (2024). Enacting machine agency when AI makes one’s day: Understanding how users relate to AI communication technologies for scheduling. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 29(4), 1-12.

Myers, K. K., Endacott, C. G., & Snyder, J. (2024). “Your Connection is Unstable”: Remote Socialization and Effects on Organizational Assimilation. Management Communication Quarterly.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2024). Artificial intelligence as a mechanism of algorithmic isomorphism. In Research Handbook on Artificial Intelligence and Decision Making in Organizations (pp. 342-358). Edward Elgar Publishing.

Endacott, C. G., Duran, J.M., & Summerville, K. (2023). Labor in fissured workplaces: Contract workers’ membership negotiation in “Big Tech.” Western Journal of Communication.

Woo, D., Endacott, C. G., & Myers, K. K. (2022). Navigating water cooler talks without the water cooler: Uncertainty and information seeking during remote socialization. Management Communication Quarterly.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2022).Artificial intelligence and impression management: Consequences of autonomous conversational agents communicating on one’s behalf. Human Communication Research.

Endacott, C. G., & Leonardi, P. M. (2020). Keep them Apart or Join them Together? How Identification Processes Shape Orientations to Network Brokerage. Communication Research.

McClelland-Cohen, A., & Endacott, C. G. (2020). The Signs of Our Discontent: Framing Collective Identity at the Women’s March on Washington. Communication Studies.

Endacott, C. G., & Myers, K. K. (2019). Extending the membership negotiation model: Previous work experience and the reproduction and transformation of structures. Management Communication Quarterly.

Endacott, C. G., Hartwig, R. T., & Yu, C. H. (2017). An exploratory study of communication practices affecting church leadership team performance. Southern Journal of Communication, 82, 129-139.

Research on Older Adults, Religion, and Spirituality

This research stemmed from a Templeton-funded project that examined changes in religiosity and spirituality in older adulthood and the nature of older adults’ membership in religious and non-religious organizations.

PIs: Merrill Silverstein (Syracuse University) and Vern L. Bengtson, (University of Southern California)

Bengtson, V. L., Endacott, C. G., Kang, S. L. C., & Gonzales, G. G. (Forthcoming). “Nones” in later life: Expressions of spirituality in religious and nonreligious individuals. In J. Stets & J. L. Heft (Eds.), Empty Churches: Non-Affiliation in America. Oxford University Press.

Kang, S. L. C., Endacott, C. G., Gonzales, G. G., & Bengtson, V. L. (2019). Capitalizing and compensating: Older adults’ religious and spiritual uses of technology. Anthropology and Aging, 40, 14-31.

Bengtson, V. L., Kang, S. L. C., Endacott, C. G., Gonzales, G. G., & Silverstein, M. (2018). Emerging developments in spirituality, religion, and aging. In V. L. Bengtson & M. Silverstein (Eds.), New Dimensions in Spirituality, Religion, and Aging (pp. 11-36).Routledge.

Bengtson, V. L., Endacott, C. G., & Kang, S. L. (2017). Older adults in churches: Differences in perceptions of clergy and older members. Journal of Religion, Spirituality, & Aging, 30, 154-178.

Other Work

Nabi, R., Walter, N., Oshidary, N., Endacott, C. G., Aune, A., Lew, Z., & Love-Nichols, J. (2019). Can emotions capture the elusive gain/loss framing effect? A meta-analysis. Communication Research.