Organizational Communication Resource
Page
This is a non-exhaustive list of print and Internet
resources for Organizational Communication. The NCA Org. Comm. Division
is not responsible for the contents of the resources. Links will open in
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Table of Contents
1. Internet Resources for
Organizational Communication Theory
2. Core Reference Materials
3. Core Journals and Scholarly
Publishing
4. Associations
5. Research Centers
6. Internet Resources for
Research Methodology
7. Library Research Help
Internet
Resources for Organizational Communication Theory
Communication Directions
http://www.uwec.edu/Sampsow/
Provides
links to Internet resources related to 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 topics such as complexity,
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, contemporary philosophers, and social
theorists.
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
Provides links to Internet resources for group and organizational communication
theories.
Language in the Workplace:
Research http://www.vuw.ac.nz/lals/research/lwp/research/index.aspx
Discusses from the sociolinguistic perspective a variety of research topics
such as miscommunication, cultural identity, small talk, and workplace humor.
<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.
Narratives in Organizations
http://cbae.nmsu.edu/~dboje/pages/toolbar2.html
Addresses 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/
Examines and critiques different organizational communication theories.
Also provides examples and brief bibliographies.
Phenomenology Online
http://phenomenologyonline.com/home.html
"Provides
public access to articles, monographs, and other materials discussing and
exemplifying phenomenological research."
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.
Tools for OT Scholars
http://ot.cavarretta.com/
Offers a bibliographic database of references of
Organizational Theory, a collection
of "mindmaps related to Organizational Theory scholarship," and a
discussion of information technology tools for social scientists.
Core Reference Materials
Electronic
Encyclopedia of Communication
http://www.cios.org/encyclopedia/enindex.htm
Lists information resources for different subject areas of Communication
Studies.
Glossary of Sociological Terms
http://www.soci.canterbury.ac.nz/resources/glossary/index.shtml
Provides definitions of sociological terms, with links to relevant Internet
resources.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
http://plato.stanford.edu/contents.html
A free (open-access) encyclopedia of philosophical thinkings, including those
that have informed communication theories.
Blackwell Handbook of
Principles of Organizational Behavior
Editor: Edwin A. Locke
Published
by Blackwell Publishing, 2000.
Handbook of Communication Audits for Organisations
Authors: Owen Hargie and Dennis Tourish
Published
by Routledge, 2000.
New Handbook of Organizational Communication: Advances in
Theory, Research, and Methods
Editors: Fredric M. Jablin and Linda L. Putnam
Published by SAGE Publications, 2000.
Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory: Meta-Theoretical
Perspectives
Editors: Haridimos
Tsoukas and Christian Knudsen
Published by
SAGE Handbook
of Organizational Discourse
Editors: David Grant, Cynthia Hardy, Cliff Oswick, and Linda L.
Putnam
Published by SAGE Publications, 2004.
Dictionary of Media and Communication Studies
Authors: James Watson and Anne Hill
Published by
Encyclopedia of Social Theory
Editor: George Ritzer
Published by SAGE Publications, 2004.
Core Journals and Scholarly
Publishing
Academy
of Management Journal
Academy
of Management Review
Administrative Science
Quarterly
Communication
Monographs
Communication
Quarterly
Communication Reports
The full text of some back issues is available free at CIOS's online archives.
Communication Research
Communication
Research Reports
Communication
Research Trends
The full text of some back issues is available free on the journal's
homepage.
Communication Studies
Communication Theory
Culture and
Organization
Electronic Journal
of Communication
Human Communication
Research
Human Relations
Journal of
Communication
Management
Communication Quarterly
Organization
Organization Science
Organization Studies
Organizational
Research Methods
Review of
Communication
Southern
Communication Journal
TAMARA:
Journal for Critical Postmodern Organization
The full text of some back issues is available free on the journal's
homepage.
Western Journal of
Communication
Other relevant
journals may be indexed by these
Web-based directories:
Iowa Guide: Scholarly
Journals in Mass Communication and Related Fields
http://iowaguide.uiowa.edu/
Provides bibliographic information of journals in various subject areas of
Communication Studies. Also offers
advice on scholarly publishing.
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 (open-access) online academic journals.
Increasing access to academic
publications can enhance scholarly communication.
The following Internet resources suggest ways for authors to manage
their rights and to increase the accessibility to their publications:
Author's
Addendum to Copyright Agreement
http://www.arl.org/sparc/author/addendum.html
Developed for the Scholarly Publishing
and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC),
this addendum can be attached to the publisher's copyright transfer agreement
to help authors retain certain key rights over their publications.
Author Control of Right
http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlissues/scholarlycomm/scholarlycommunicationtoolkit/faculty/facultyauthorcontrol.htm
Developed as part of the Scholarly Communication Toolkit, this page discusses
how authors can manage their copyrights and provides sample publishing
agreements that unbundle rights.
Self-Archiving
FAQ
http://www.eprints.org/openaccess/self-faq/
Explains the significance and practices
of authors' self-archiving of their publications.
Publisher
Copyright Policies & Self-Archiving
http://www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeo.php?all=yes
Provides "a summary of permissions
that are normally given as part of each publisher's copyright transfer
agreement."
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."
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, and open
access.
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: Organizational
Communication and Information Systems Division
http://divisions.aomonline.org/ocis/
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/eng/aboutus.html
Central States Communication Association
(CSCA)
http://www.csca-net.org/
Communication
Institute for Online Scholarship (CIOS)
http://cios.org/
Eastern Communication Association (ECA)
http://www.ecasite.org/
European Group for Organizational Studies
(EGOS)
http://www.egosnet.org/
International Communication Association
(ICA)
http://www.icahdq.org/
International
Communication Association: Intergroup Communication Interest Group
http://www.icahdq.org/divisions/intergroup/Intergroup%20index.html
International
Communication Association: Organizational Communication Division
http://www.ohiou.edu/ica-orgcomm/index.htm
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 (NCA)
http://www.natcom.org/
National Communication Association: Group
Communication Division
http://communication.wcupa.edu/groupdiv/
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."
Society for Industrial and
Organizational Psychology (SIOP)
http://www.siop.org/
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."
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 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 on
Organizational Discourse, Strategy and Change (ICRODSC)
http://www.management.unimelb.edu.au/icrodsc/
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/
A research group that studies and identifies the sociolinguistic features
of workplace talk by analyzing the interactions in the workplace.
Palo Alto Research Center:
Community Research Program
http://www.parc.xerox.com/research/subtheme.php?subtheme=Community
A
research group that organizes projects which "develop components and
applications to amplify knowledge creation, discovery and sharing in
organizations."
Research Center
for Group Dynamics (RCGD)
http://www.rcgd.isr.umich.edu/
RCGD "focuses on the individual in society, with interest in group
processes and social cognition."
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."
Internet Resources for Research Methodology
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 discussions of methodologies
and research software.
Quantitative Methods
http://www.sosig.ac.uk/roads/subject-listing/World-cat/quanmeth.html
A comprehensive list of resources for quantitative research.
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."
StatPages.net
http://members.aol.com/johnp71/javastat.html
An extensive list of Web sites devoted to statistical research methods.
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.
Resources for
Methods in Evaluation and Social Research
http://gsociology.icaap.org/methods/
A
list of free resources for evaluating research and its methods.
Library Research Help
Library Navigator for Communication
Research
http://www.scc.rutgers.edu/douglass/192_201/
Created by an academic librarian, this online tutorial discusses skills for
conducting library research, preparing a literature review, writing a research
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 evaluate information, how to organize
notes, and how to write a research essay.
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 instructors 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.
Finding Information on the Internet: A Tutorial
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/FindInfo.html
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
suggestions for instructors who ask students to do research on the Internet.
Created and last updated by Adrian Ho on
Jan. 8, 2006