Organizational
Communication Resource Page
This is a non-exhaustive list of print and
Internet resources for Organizational Communication. The Org Comm Division
is not responsible for the content of the resources. Links will open in
new windows. Any feedback, suggestions, and/or reports of broken links can
be sent to Tim Kuhn or Adrian Ho.
Internet Resources for Organizational Communication Theory
Center for Social Informatics: Working Papers
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/papers.html
A collection of papers that discuss the uses and impacts of information technology in various social and organizational contexts.
Communication Directions
http://www.uwec.edu/Sampsow/
Provides links to Internet resources related to different topics in corporate and organizational communications. Also lists resources for managerial measures and communication audits.
Communication Theory
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/comm_theory.html
"An index of names and resources addressing theoretical aspects of Communications from a variety of disciplines within the social sciences."
Communities of Practice: A Brief Introduction
http://www.ewenger.com/theory/index.htm
"Examines what communities of practice are and why researchers and practitioners in so many different contexts find them useful as an approach to knowing and learning."
Complexity, Complex Systems & Chaos Theory: Organizations as Self-Adaptive Complex Systems
http://www.brint.com/Systems.htm
A portal that provides bibliographies of online articles on complexity and related subjects such as complex systems, adaptive systems, self organization, and autopoiesis.
Contemporary Philosophy, Critical Theory and Postmodern Thought
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/postmodern.html
An extensive list of Internet resources that discuss postmodernism, critical theory, and prominent figures of contemporary philosophy and social theory.
Continental Philosophy
http://pegasus.cc.ucf.edu/~janzb/continental/
A massive list of Internet resources for social theories and philosophical thinkings that have informed communication theories.
Group and Organizational Communication Theories
http://www.afirstlook.com/links.cfm?expand=3
A list of Internet resources devoted to various group and organizational communication theories.
Language in the Workplace: Research
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/lwp/research.htm
Discusses a variety of research topics such as miscommunication, cultural identity, small talk, workplace humor, etc.
<meta>discourses: Theory
http://www.colorado.edu/communication/meta-discourses/theory.htm
Discusses the theories and theorists in different subject areas of Communication Studies. Also provides links to general Internet resources for Communication Studies.
Narrative in Organizations: David Boje's Homepage
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/pages/toolbar2.html
Discusses various organizational communication topics such as the narrative approach to studying an organization, the functions of organizational storytelling, and the influence of postmodernism on management and communication.
Organizational Communication Context
http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/capstone/orgcomm/
Discusses and critiques different organizational communication theories. Also provides examples and brief bibliographies.
Organizational Informatics
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/SI/oi1.html
Provides information about "a field which studies the development and use of computerized information systems and communication systems in organizations."
Phenomenology Online
http://phenomenologyonline.com/home.html
"Provides public access to articles, monographs, and other materials discussing and exemplifying phenomenological research."
Resources for Discourse Studies
http://www.discourse-in-society.org/Resources.html
A list of bibliographies, e-mail lists, journals, and homepages of scholars and organizations in the field of discourse analysis.
Small Group Communication Context
http://www.uky.edu/~drlane/capstone/group/
Discusses and critiques different small group communication theories. Also provides examples and brief bibliographies.
Theorists and Critics
http://www.popcultures.com/theorist.htm
An extensive list of social and communication theorists and discussions of their work. At the end is a directory of scholars' homepages.
Theory of Technology
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/tech_theory.html
Covers "studies of human artifacts as cause and consequence of socio-cultural development."
Core Reference Materials
Electronic Encyclopedia of
Communication
http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/enindex.htm
Lists information resources for different
subject areas in Communication Studies.
Communication Links Web Navigation Index
(aka Kurylo's Communication Links Depository)
http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/comlinks/webindex.htm
A comprehensive index to Internet resources
for Communication Studies.
Communication Studies, Cultural Studies,
and Media Studies Infobase
http://www.cultsock.ndirect.co.uk/MUHome/cshtml/
An encyclopedic dictionary of terminologies
used in Communication Studies, Media and Cultural Studies, and Sociology.
Glossary of Sociological
Terms
http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/glossary/index.shtml
A list of definitions of sociological
terms, with links to relevant Internet resources.
Stanford Encyclopedia of
Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
An encyclopedia of philosophical thinkings,
including those that have informed communication theories.
Iowa Guide: Scholarly
Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields
http://fmp2.its.uiowa.edu/iowaguide/FMPro?-db=iowaguide_.fp5&-lay=plain&-format=search.html&-view
A directory that provides bibliographic
information of scholarly journals in various subject areas of Communication
Studies.
SocioSite: Electronic Journals and
Magazines
http://www2.fmg.uva.nl/sociosite/journals.html
An annotated list of scholarly publications
that are accessible electronically. Not all listed publications are
available free.
Directory of Open Access
Journals
http://www.doaj.org/
A tool to find free online full-text
scholarly journals.
JournalSeek
http://journalseek.net/
Provides
journal information such as journal abbreviation, homepage link, aims and scope,
subject category, etc.
A-Z of Social Research:
A Dictionary of Key Social Science Research Concepts
Editors: Robert Lee Miller and John D.
Brewer
Published by SAGE Publications, 2003.
Communication Yearbook
Published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc.
Dictionary of Media and
Communication Studies
Authors:
James Watson and
Anne Hill
Published by Oxford University Press, 2003
(6th ed.).
Dictionary of
Qualitative Inquiry
Author:
Thomas A.
Schwandt
Published by SAGE Publications, 2001 (2nd
ed.).
Dictionary of
Statistics & Methodology: A Nontechnical Guide for the Social
Sciences
Author: W. Paul Vogt
Published by SAGE Publications, 1998 (2nd
ed.).
Encyclopedia of Social
Theory
Editor: George Ritzer
Published by SAGE Publications, 2004.
Handbook
of Communication Audits for Organisations
Authors: Owen David
William Hargie and Dennis Tourish
Published
by Routledge, 2000.
Handbook of Mixed
Methods in Social & Behavioral Research
Editors:
Abbas
Tashakkori and Charles Teddlie
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2002.
Handbook of Qualitative
Research
Editors: Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2000 (2nd ed.).
Handbook of Social
Theory
Editors: George Ritzer and Barry Smart
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2001.
New Handbook of
Organizational Communication: Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods
Editors: Fredric M. Jablin and Linda L. Putnam
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2000.
SAGE Encyclopedia of
Social Science Research Methods
Editors: Michael Lewis-Beck, Alan E. Bryman, and Tim Futing Liao
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2003.
SAGE Handbook of
Organizational Discourse
Editors: David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, and Linda L. Putnam
Published
by SAGE Publications, 2004.
Core Journals
Discourse Analysis
Online
http://extra.shu.ac.uk/daol/index.html
ISSN: 1477-7843. A free online academic journal that
provides "an innovative forum for the presentation of discourse analysis
research" and fosters "on-line collaboration and dialogue within the DA
community."
Electronic Journal of
Knowledge Management
http://www.ejkm.com/
ISSN:
1479-4411. A free online academic journal that publishes
articles pertinent to the study and implementation of knowledge
management.
Forum:
Qualitative Social Research
http://www.qualitative-research.net/fqs/fqs-e/rubriken-e.htm
ISSN: 1438-5627. A free, multilingual
online academic journal that promotes "discussion and cooperation among
qualitative researchers from different countries and social science
disciplines."
Qualitative
Report
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/
ISSN:
1052-0147. A free online academic journal on qualitative
research in different disciplines.
Academy of Management
Journal
ISSN: 0001-4273
Academy
of Management Review
ISSN:
0363-7425
Administrative Science
Quarterly
ISSN:
0001-8392
Australian Journal of
Communication
ISSN:
0811-6202. The full text of some back issues is available free at CIOS's
online archives.
Communication
Abstracts
ISSN:
0162-2811
Communication
Monographs
ISSN: 0363-7751
Communication
Quarterly
ISSN: 0146-3373
Communication
Reports
ISSN:
0893-4215. The full text of some back issues is available free at CIOS's online
archives.
Communication
Research
ISSN:
0093-6502
Communication Research
Reports
ISSN: 0882-4096
Communication Research
Trends
ISSN: 0144-4646. The full text of
some back issues is available free on the journal's homepage.
Communication
Studies
ISSN:
0008-9575
Communication Teacher
ISSN:
1740-4622
Communication
Theory
ISSN: 1050-3293
Culture and
Organization
ISSN: 1475-9551
Discourse
Studies
ISSN:
1461-4456
Electronic Journal of
Communication
http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm
ISSN: 1183-5656. An online academic
journal with some abstracts available free to non-subscribers.
Human Communication
Research
ISSN:
0360-3989
Human
Relations
ISSN:
0018-7267
Management
Communication Quarterly
ISSN: 0893-3189
Organization
ISSN: 1350-5084
Organization
Science
ISSN:
1047-7039
Organization
Studies
ISSN:
0170-8406
Organizational Research
Methods
ISSN: 1094-4281
Qualitative
Inquiry
ISSN: 1077-8004
Qualitative
Research
ISSN: 1468-7941
Qualitative Research
Reports in Communication
Review of
Communication
ISSN: 1535-8593
Southern Communication
Journal
ISSN: 1041-794X
Western Journal of
Communication
ISSN:
1057-0314
Internet Resources for Research Methodology
Research Resources
http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/faculty/rrice/ricelink.htm#ResearchResources
A
springboard to a wealth of Internet resources for communication research,
especially about statistics and quantitative methodologies. The web site
also lists useful resources for Organizational Communication, Computer-mediated
Communication, and Information Systems.
Ethno/CA News: Resources
http://www.paultenhave.nl/resource.htm
A list of resources for and publications on
Ethnomethodology, Conversation Analysis, and Discourse Analysis.
Interactive Statistical Demonstrations and
Tutorials
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javasta4.html
An extensive list of Internet resources
that provide demonstrations and/or tutorials of statistical concepts and
methods.
Qualitative Research
http://carbon.cudenver.edu/~mryder/itc_data/pract_res.html
"This page contains links to resources that
explain the art of qualitative educational research: critiques, literature
reviews, research design methodologies and other articles."
Qualitative Research (Kerlins.net)
http://kerlins.net/bobbi/research/qualresearch/
Offers a wealth of information about
qualitative research, including an extensive bibliography, a list of glossaries,
and information about methodologies and research software.
Qualitative Research Web Sites
http://www.nova.edu/ssss/QR/web.html
An extensive list of web sites on
qualitative research and methodologies.
Quantitative Research Methods in
Communication
http://vms.csd.mu.edu/~Griffinr/Comm203.html
Provides examples, exercises, and useful
Internet resources for quantitative research methods in Communication Studies.
Research Methods Knowledge Base
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/kb/index.htm
An
online textbook that addresses various topics about social research, such as
formulating research questions, sampling, measurement, research design, data
analysis, and writing the research paper. Also covers major theoretical
underpinnings of social research, and discusses the validity, reliability, and
ethics of conducting research.
Research Methods
Tutorials
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/tutorial/tutorial.htm
"This page consists of tutorial Web
projects put together by the graduate students in Program Evaluation and
Planning at Cornell University. Each of these projects teaches a specific
research methods topic that the student selected."
Resources for Methods in Evaluation and
Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
A list of free resources for evaluating
research and its methods.
Selecting Statistics
http://www.socialresearchmethods.net/selstat/ssstart.htm
"An online
statistical advisor! Answer the questions and it will lead you to an appropriate
statistical test for your data."
Social Science Information
Gateway (SOSIG): Qualitative Methods
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/qualmeth.html
A comprehensive list of resources for
qualitative research.
Social Science Information
Gateway (SOSIG): Quantitative Methods
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/quanmeth.html
A comprehensive list of resources for
quantitative research.
StatPages.net
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
An extensive list of web sites devoted to
statistical research methods.
Library Research Help
Library Navigator for Communication
Research
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/192_201/
Created by a librarian at the Rutgers
University Library, this online tutorial discusses some general skills for
conducting library research, preparing a literature review, writing an academic
paper, and quoting information sources in the APA citation style. The
first three sections on the left panel are especially useful.
Research Strategies: Finding Your Way
through the Information Fog
http://www.acts.twu.ca/lbr/preface.htm
An online textbook that explains the steps
involved in the research process, such as what resources to use, how to use the
resources, how to evaluate information, how to organize notes, and how to write
a research essay.
Finding Information on the
Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
An online tutorial on Internet
searching.
Texas Information Literacy
Tutorial (TILT)
http://tilt.lib.utsystem.edu/
An
interactive tutorial that prepares the user to explore and research in the
online world.
Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web
Resources: Evaluation Criteria
http://lib.nmsu.edu/instruction/evalcrit.html
A checklist for evaluating the quality of
Internet resources. Also offers a bibliography on Internet evaluation as
well as suggestions for instructors who ask students to do research on the
Internet.
Using American Psychological Association
(APA) Format
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_apa.html
APA
Citation Style for Internet Resources
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite6.html
Guide to
Plagiarism and Cyber-Plagiarism
http://www.library.ualberta.ca/guides/plagiarism/
Suggests
ways for faculty to detect and prevent plagiarism. Also lists resources
for students to avoid it.
Plagiarism Prevention for Students
http://library.csusm.edu/plagiarism/index.html
A comprehensive guide that explains
different issues involved in plagiarism and suggests ways with examples to avoid
plagiarism.
Professional Writing Handouts and
Resources
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/pw/
"This collection of handouts will provide
you with information about various aspects of business, technical, and
professional writing." Also offers PowerPoint
presentations on different types
of professional writing such as building a résumé and crafting an academic
application.
Associations
Academy of Management
(AOM)
http://www.aomonline.org/
Academy of Management: Gender & Diversity in Organizations Division
http://divisions.aomonline.org/gdo/
Academy of Management:
Managerial and Organizational Cognition Division
http://aomweb.pace.edu/moc/
Academy of Management: Organizational
Communication and Information Systems Division
http://divisions.aomonline.org/ocis/
Academy of Management:
Research Methods Division
http://aom.pace.edu/rmd/
American Communication Association
(ACA)
http://www.americancomm.org/
Association for Women in Communications
(AWC)
http://www.womcom.org/
Australian and New Zealand Communication
Association (ANZCA)
http://www.anzca.net/
Canadian Communication Association
(CCA)
http://www.acc-cca.ca/en/index.html
Central States Communication
Association (CSCA)
http://www.csca-net.org/
Communication Institute for Online
Scholarship (CIOS)
http://cios.org/
Comparative Methods for the Advancement of
Systematic Cross-case Analysis and Small-n Studies (COMPASSS)
http://www.compasss.org/Welcome.htm
"A research group bringing together
scholars and practitioners who share a common interest in theoretical,
methodological and practical advancements in a systematic comparative case
approach to research which stresses the use of a configurational logic, the
existence of multiple causality and the importance of a careful construction of
research populations."
CP Square
http://www.cpsquare.org/
As "the
community of practice on community of practice," CP Square organizes events and
education programs for people interested in community of practice.
Eastern Communication Association
(ECA)
http://www.ecasite.org/
European Group for Organizational Studies
(EGOS)
http://www.egosnet.org/
Grounded Theory Institute
http://www.groundedtheory.org/
An
organization devoted to developing grounded theory by organizing seminars and
workshops for researchers and practitioners.
International Association of Social Science
Information Service & Technology (IASSIST)
http://datalib.library.ualberta.ca/iassist/index.html
"An international organization of
professionals working in and with information technology and data services to
support research and teaching in the social sciences."
International Communication Association
(ICA)
http://www.icahdq.org/
International Communication Association:
Organizational Communication Division
http://www.ohiou.edu/ica-orgcomm/index.htm
International Institute for
Qualitative Methodology (IIQM)
http://www.ualberta.ca/~iiqm/
A
multidisciplinary institute "with the primary goal of facilitating the
development of qualitative research methods across a wide variety of academic
disciplines."
International Institute of
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (IIEMCA)
http://www.iiemca.org/
"A
consortium of persons and institutions in North America, Europe and the United
Kingdom which is dedicated to the advancement of theory and method in
ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies."
National Coalition for Dialogue and
Deliberation (NCDD)
http://www.thataway.org/
An
organization that fosters and facilitates dialogues on critical issues in
organizations, communities, and/or society.
National Communication Association: Group
Communication Division
http://communication.wcupa.edu/groupdiv/
National Communication Association: Lambda
Pi Eta
http://www.natcom.org/StudentOrgs/LPH/LPH.HTM
"An undergraduate honor society for
communication students in four-year colleges and universities."
National Communication Association: Student
Clubs
http://www.natcom.org/StudentOrgs/NCASC/home.htm
"An aggregate of student communication
clubs chartered on various college and university campuses which elect to
affiliate with NCA and have made a commitment to enriching the lives of
undergraduate student communication majors and non-majors."
Organizations, Occupations and Work
(OOW)
http://campus.northpark.edu/sociology/oow/default.htm
OOW is a section of the American
Sociological Association and "focuses on concepts and theories from the various social sciences as they apply
to problems of organizations, occupational roles and the changing nature of
work."
Southern States Communication Association
(SSCA)
http://ssca.net/
Standing Conference on
Organizational Symbolism (SCOS)
http://www.scos.org/
"SCOS is an
international and interdisciplinary network of academics and practitioners
interested in organizational symbolism, culture and
change."
Survey Research Methods
http://www.amstat.org/sections/SRMS/index.html
As a section of the American
Statistical Association, this
group promotes "the improvement of survey practice and the understanding of
survey methods by encouraging both theoretical and applied research on
survey-related topics and by disseminating information on survey methods."
Time-sharing Experiments for
the Social Sciences (TESS)
http://www.experimentcentral.org/
"Offers researchers opportunities to test
their experimental ideas on large, diverse, randomly-selected subject
populations."
Western States Communication
Association (WSCA)
http://www.westcomm.org/
World Communication Association
(WCA)
http://facstaff.uww.edu/wca/Home.htm
Research Centers
Center for Activity Theory and
Developmental Work Research
http://www.edu.helsinki.fi/activity/
A research group that studies "work,
technology and organizations going through transformations."
Center for Corporate Citizenship
(CCC)
http://www.bc.edu/centers/ccc/index.html
A research center that helps "business
leverage its social, economic and human assets to ensure both its success and a
more just and sustainable world."
Center for Social Informatics
(CSI)
http://www.slis.indiana.edu/CSI/
CSI is
dedicated to research into the roles of information technology in social and
organizational change.
Center for Statistics and the
Social Sciences (CSSS)
http://www.csss.washington.edu/
Aims at "galvanizing collaborative research between social scientists and
statisticians." Links are available to related web sites and working
papers on the uses of statistical methods in the social sciences.
Center for Work, Technology and
Organization (WTO)
http://www.stanford.edu/group/WTO/overview/welcome.shtml
WTO is "committed to basic and applied
research that will help us better understand how work is changing and, hence,
design more effective organizations and technologies."
International Centre for Research in
Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change
http://www.management.unimelb.edu.au/icrod/icrod.html
An international research center that
focuses on cross-disciplinary organizational studies.
Language in the Workplace Project
(LWP)
http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/lwp/index.htm
A research group that studies and
identifies the communicative features of workplace talk by analyzing the
interactions recorded in the workplace.
Research Center for Group Dynamics
(RCGD)
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/
Conducts
research that "focuses on the individual in society, with interest in group
processes and social cognition. Experimental studies in laboratories and
in natural settings such as schools, businesses, and community groups probe
processes like decision-making, prejudice, judgment, and emotion."
Santa Fe Institute (SFI)
http://www.santafe.edu/
SFI "is
devoted to creating a new kind of scientific research community, one emphasizing
multidisciplinary collaboration in pursuit of understanding the common themes
that arise in natural, artificial, and social systems."
Systems and Practices Laboratory
(SPL)
http://www.parc.xerox.com/research/spl/default.html
As a unit of the Palo Alto Research Center,
SPL conducts research that examines workplace practices, the use of technology,
and the generation of knowledge in the workplace as a community.
Publishing and Publishers
Creative Commons
http://creativecommons.org/
"A
nonprofit that offers a flexible copyright for creative work" and "helps you
publish your work online while letting others know exactly what they can and
can't do with your work."
Copyright Resources for Authors: Practical Guidance When Submitting Journal
Articles
http://www.arl.org/sparc/resources/copyres.html
A guide
that helps authors of journal articles to negotiate licensing agreements in such
a way that they will maximize access to and dissemination of their work. Also provides links to resources for publishing and creating an online
repository.
Issues in Scholarly
Communication
http://www.arl.org/scomm/
Provides
links to web sites that discuss issues concerning the current situations of
scholarly communication, such as licensing, intellectual property, open access,
etc.
AltaMira Press
Blackwell Publishing
Guilford
Publications
Hampton Press
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates,
Inc.
Open University Press
Oxford University
Press
Pine Forge Press
Polity Press
Routledge
Roxbury Publishing
SAGE Publications
SUNY Press
Taylor & Francis Group
Created and last updated by Adrian Ho, Oct. 24, 2004