Management Communication Quarterly
An International Journal
Other Titles in:
Management Communication | Organization Studies (General) | Organizational Communication
Management Communication | Organization Studies (General) | Organizational Communication
eISSN:
15526798 | ISSN:
08933189 | Current volume: 38 | Current issue: 3
Frequency: Quarterly
Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ) is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes on a quarterly basis. MCQ publishes conceptually rigorous, empirically-grounded, and practice-relevant research with strong appeal across all disciplines concerned with organizational studies and the management sciences.
The journal is an essential resource on organizational and managerial practice, offering valuable and timely insights for scholars, professionals, consultants, and trainers.
Cross-Disciplinary, Global Approach with Complete Coverage
A unique and valuable peer-reviewed journal, Management Communication Quarterly articles cover all aspects of communication in management and organizational contexts. Our authors cross the disciplinary boundaries of academic management study and explore a variety of contemporary organizational problems by conceptualizing or applying cutting edge theories and methodologies.
Management Communication Quarterly exposes its readers to the best thinking from a global network of organizational scholars. MCQ’s Editorial Board spans every continent and provides expertise for reviewing scholarship relating to the broad realm of management, communication, and organizational studies.
Each issue of MCQ presents the latest theory development and empirical research on a wide range of topics related to management and organizational communication from different perspectives and areas, such as:
The journal is an essential resource on organizational and managerial practice, offering valuable and timely insights for scholars, professionals, consultants, and trainers.
Cross-Disciplinary, Global Approach with Complete Coverage
A unique and valuable peer-reviewed journal, Management Communication Quarterly articles cover all aspects of communication in management and organizational contexts. Our authors cross the disciplinary boundaries of academic management study and explore a variety of contemporary organizational problems by conceptualizing or applying cutting edge theories and methodologies.
Management Communication Quarterly exposes its readers to the best thinking from a global network of organizational scholars. MCQ’s Editorial Board spans every continent and provides expertise for reviewing scholarship relating to the broad realm of management, communication, and organizational studies.
Each issue of MCQ presents the latest theory development and empirical research on a wide range of topics related to management and organizational communication from different perspectives and areas, such as:
- Communication Technology
- Conflict Processes
- Corporate Communication
- Corporate Social Responsibility
- Critical Management Studies
- Crisis Communication and Risk Management
- Cross Cultural Management
- Diversity Management
- Culture and Values
- Decision Making
- Harassment, Violence, and Psychological Abuse in Organizations
- Emotion and Emotional Labor
- Employer-Employee Relations
- Gender, Race and Ethnicity
- Globalization
- Information Processing
- Innovation
- Knowledge Management
- Organizing for Social Change
- Organizational Ethics
- Organizational Identification and Identity
- Organizational Learning
- Organization Change
- Participation and Democracy
- Power and Control
- Public Relations
- Sustainability
- Virtual Organizations
Regular Features
Each issue of Management Communication Quarterly features a range of original studies. There is a regular Forum section devoted to provocative essays and commentaries on evolving issues in the field. The journal also publishes research notes on emerging areas of inquiry, empirical explorations and reviews of current books and texts.
Management Communication Quarterly is an international, peer-reviewed journal that publishes and advances the best research that takes a communicative approach to the study and practice of organizing and organizations. MCQ presents conceptually innovative, empirically grounded, and practice-relevant research from across organizational and management communication fields. MCQ takes a broad view of organizations, management, and organizing, including consideration of social movements, identities, networks, globalization, volunteer organizations, NGOs, corporations, and governments. As such, MCQ has wide appeal across organizational and management disciplines concerned with the conceptualization and practice of communication, organizing, and organizations.
Authors are encouraged to submit original theoretical and empirical manuscripts from a range of disciplines and methodological approaches, covering a range of perspectives, messages, issues, and challenges pertaining to organizational and management communication. Submissions should center communication in organizing processes and managerial and organizational contexts.
Criteria for publication include theoretical, conceptual, and practical significance; originality; clarify of argument; methodological thoroughness and care; and attention to diversity, inclusion, and equity issues across the project, from research design, implementation, and analysis to citational practices.
In addition to full length research articles and shorter research notes, MCQ accepts several other submission types: 1) short methods manuscripts (4-5k words) that introduce new or significantly update existing research methods to organizational and management research; 2) reviews that analyze books of core concern and interest to readers; 3) forums that include themed essays, and commentaries, debates, or developed conference discussions. MCQ is also currently developing a research proposal submission option. Please contact the current editor or more details.
Editor
| Matthew Koschmann | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
Former Editors
| JoAnne Yates, 1987 - 1991 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA |
| Paul C. Feingold, 1987 - 1991 | University of Southern California, USA |
| C. Christine Kelly, 1987 - 1992 | New York University, USA |
| Larry R. Smeltzer, 1991 - 1994 | Arizona State University, USA |
| Katherine I. Miller, 1992 - 1997 | Arizona State University, Visiting Professor, USA |
| Patrice M. Buzzanell, 1997 - 2000 | University of South Florida, USA |
| Theodore E. Zorn, 2001 - 2003 | Massey University, New Zealand |
| Charles Conrad, 2003 - 2006 | Texas A & M University, USA |
| James Barker, 2007 - 2012 | Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada |
| Ling Chen, 2013 - 2015 | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| Patricia M. Sias, 2016 - 2018 | University of Arizona, USA |
| Rebecca J. Meisenbach, 2019 - 2022 | University of Missouri, USA |
Associate Editors
| Oana Albu | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Vidhi Chaudhri | Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Kerk F. Kee | Texas Tech University, USA |
| Seungyoon Lee | Purdue University, USA |
| Ziyu Long | Colorado State University, USA |
| Leah M. Omilion-Hodges | Western Michigan University, USA |
Book Review Associate Editor
| Brett Robertson | University of South Carolina, USA |
Editorial Board Members
| Ana Almansa-Martínez | University of Malaga, Spain |
| Alejandro Alvarez-Nobell | University of Malaga, Spain |
| Mats Alvesson | Lund University, Sweden |
| Lindsey Anderson | University of Maryland, USA |
| Mónica Arzuaga-Williams | Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay |
| Karen Ashcraft | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Yannick Atouba | The University of Texas at El Paso, USA |
| Dawna I. Ballard | University of Texas, USA |
| Joshua Barbour | University of Texas, USA |
| J. Kevin Barge | Texas A&M University, USA |
| James Barker | Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada |
| Jos Bartels | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| Hamilton Bean | University of Colorado at Denver, USA |
| Nicolas Bencherki | Université Téluq, Canada |
| Jan M. A. C. Bernadas | De La Salle University, Philippines |
| Leila Bighash | University of Arizona, USA |
| Ryan S. Bisel | University of Oklahoma |
| Sarah Jane Blithe | University of Colorado Boulder, USA |
| Isabel C. Botero | University of Louisville, USA |
| Josh Boyd | Purdue University, USA |
| Boris H. J. M. Brummans | Université de Montréal, Canada |
| Jennifer A. Butler | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, USA |
| Patrice M. Buzzanell | University of South Florida, USA |
| Heather E. Canary | San Diego State University, USA |
| Theresa Castor | University of Wisconsin, USA |
| Rebecca Chory | Frostburg State University, USA |
| Phillip G. Clampitt | University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, USA |
| Stacey L. Connaughton | Purdue University, USA |
| Charles Conrad | Texas A&M University, USA |
| Timothy Coombs | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Francois Cooren | University of Montreal, Canada |
| Gregory A. Cranmer | Clemson University, USA |
| Suzy D'enbeau | Kent State University, USA |
| Scott d'Urso | Marquette University, USA |
| Stephanie Dailey | Texas State University, USA |
| Veronica R. Dawson | California State University - Stanislaus, USA |
| Menno de Jong | University of Twente, Netherlands |
| Sarah E. Dempsey | University of North Carlina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Penny Dick | University of Sheffield, UK |
| Marya L. Doerfel | Rutgers University, USA |
| Chuqing Dong | Michigan State University, USA |
| William Donohue | Michigan State University, USA |
| Debbie S. Dougherty | University of Missouri, USA |
| Elizabeth K. Eger | Texas State University, USA |
| Camille Endacott | University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA |
| Sarah Bonewits Feldner | Marquette University, USA |
| Jessica Ford | Baylor University, USA |
| Jiawei Sophia Fu | Rutgers University, USA |
| Elena Gabor | Bradley University, USA |
| Cindy Gallois | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Shiv Ganesh | University of Texas-Austin, USA |
| Johny Garner | Texas Christian University, USA |
| Jennifer Gibbs | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Angela Gist-Mackey | University of Kansas, USA |
| Ariadne A. Gonzalez | Texas A&M International University, USA |
| Michael Gross | Colorado State University, USA |
| Maurice Hall | The College of New Jersey, USA |
| Zachary Hart | Northern Kentucky University, USA |
| Lynn Harter | University of Ohio, USA |
| Renee Heath | University of New Hampshire, USA |
| Robert L. Heath | University of Houston, USA |
| Carrisa Hoelscher | Missouri State University, USA |
| Raymond L. Hogler | Colorado State University, USA |
| Sherry Holladay | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Sean Horan | Fairfield University, USA |
| Michele H. Jackson | Michigan State University, USA |
| Jody L. Jahn | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Eric P. James | Metropolitan State University of Denver, USA |
| Jessica Jameson | North Carolina State University, USA |
| Peter Jensen | University of Alabama, USA |
| Dongjing Kang | Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China |
| Eric Karikari | Towson University, USA |
| Jeff Kassing | Arizona State University, USA |
| Loraleigh Keashly | Wayne State University, USA |
| Heewon Kim | Arizona State University, USA |
| Sora Kim | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Catherine Y. Kingsley Westerman | North Dakota State University, USA |
| Timothy Kuhn | University of Colorado, USA |
| John Lammers | University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA |
| Greg Larson | University of Montana, USA |
| Marnie Lawler McDonough | University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee, USA |
| Jaesub Lee | University of Houston, USA |
| Laura Lemon | University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, USA |
| Paul Leonardi | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Kenneth Levine | Universiry at Albany, USA |
| Jasmine Linabary | Emporia State University, USA |
| Owen Lynch | Southern Methodist University, USA |
| Dron M. Mandhana | Villanova University, USA |
| Sky Marsen | Flinders University, Australia |
| John Martin | Wright State University, USA |
| Laura Martinez | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
| Steve May | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Kirstie McAllum | University of Montreal, Canada |
| Jamie McDonald | University of Texas at San Antonio, USA |
| Bernard McKenna | Queensland University of Technology, Australia |
| Lacy McNamee | Baylor University, USA |
| Rebecca J. Meisenbach | University of Missouri, USA |
| Linjuan Rita Men | University of Florida, USA |
| Trudy Milburn | Southern Connecticut State University, USA |
| Vernon Miller | Michigan State University, USA |
| Rahul Mitra | Wayne State University, USA |
| Jennifer Scott Mobley | Grove City College, USA |
| Daniel Modaff | University of Wisconsin - La Crosse, USA |
| Dennis Mumby | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA |
| Karen K. Myers | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Scott A. Myers | West Virginia University, USA |
| Majia Nadesan | Arizona State University, USA |
| James Ndone | Coastal Carolina University, USA |
| Natalie Nelson-Marsh | University of Portland, USA |
| Eddy Ng | Queen's University, Canada |
| Anne Maydan Nicotera | George Mason University, USA |
| Amy O'Connor | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, USA |
| James Olufowote | University of Oklahoma, USA |
| Leah Omillion-Hodges | Western Michigan University, USA |
| Cliff Oswick | Cass Business School, UK |
| Mahuya Pal | University of South Florida, USA |
| Patricia Parker | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA |
| Brittany L. Peterson | Ohio University, USA |
| Andrew Pilny | University of Kentucky, USA |
| Scott Poole | University of Illinois, USA |
| Linda Putnam | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Yufan "Sunny" Qin | James Madison University, USA |
| Meghana Rawat | Utah Valley University, USA |
| Robyn Remke | University of Lancaster, UK |
| Rebecca Rice | University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA |
| Ron Rice | University of California, Santa Barbara, USA |
| Brian Richardson | University of North Texas, USA |
| Jessica Rick | University of Southern Indiana, USA |
| Sarah Riforgiate | University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, USA |
| Bret Robertson | University of South Carolina, USA |
| Daniel Robichaud | Universite de Montreal, Canada |
| Gabriel Sadi | The University of Huddersfield, UK |
| Surabhi Sahay | Pennsylvania State University - Abington, USA |
| Philip Salem | Texas State University, USA |
| Dennis Schoeneborn | Copenhagen Business School, Denmark |
| Clifton Scott | University of North Carolina, Charlotte, USA |
| Craig Scott | Rutgers University, USA |
| Matthew W. Seeger | Wayne State University, USA |
| Timothy L. Sellnow | University of Central Florida, USA |
| Vivian Sheer | Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong |
| John Sherblom | University of Maine, USA |
| Lindsey Sherrill | University of North Alabama, USA |
| Michelle Shumate | Northwestern University, USA |
| John Sillince | Strathclyde University, UK |
| Anu Sivunen | University of Jyväskylä, Finland |
| Jennifer Mize Smith | Western Kentucky University, USA |
| Patricia J. Sotirin | Michigan Technological University, USA |
| Krishnamurthy Sriramesh | University of Colorado, USA |
| Keri Stephens | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Ana-María Suárez-Monsalve | Universidad de Medellín, Colombia |
| Candice Thomas-Maddox | Ohio University Lancaster, USA |
| Cris Tietsort | University of Denver, USA |
| C. Erik Timmerman | Texas State University, USA |
| Jeffrey W Treem | University of Texas at Austin, USA |
| Paaige Turner | Bowling Green State University, USA |
| Stacy Tye-Williams | Iowa State University, USA |
| Maarten Van der Sanden | Delft University of Technology, Netherlands |
| Shari R. Veil | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA |
| Astrid Villamil | University of Missouri, USA |
| Michelle Violanti | The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA |
| Jennifer Waldeck | University of Georgia, USA |
| Rong Wang | Vanderbilt University, USA |
| Yuan Wang | City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong |
| Amy Way | Villanova University, USA |
| Matthew Weber | University of Minnesota USA |
| Andrea Whittle | Cardiff University, UK |
| Stacey M. B. Wieland | Independent Scholar, USA |
| Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson | Auburn University, USA |
| Elizabeth Williams | Colorado State University, USA |
| Alicia Wireman | Indiana Tech, USA |
| Anna Wiederhold Wolfe | Texas A&M University, USA |
| DaJung Woo | Rutgers University, USA |
| Jason Wrench | SUNY New Paltz, USA |
| Alaina Zanin | Arizona State University, USA |
| Cheng Zeng | North Dakota State University, USA |
| Alvin Zhou | University of Minnesota, USA |
| Heather Zoller | University of Cincinnati, USA |
| Ted Zorn | Massey University, New Zealand |
Emeritus Board
| Justin P. Boren | Santa Clara University, USA |
| Joelle Cruz | University of Colorado, Boulder, USA |
| Michael L. Kent | University of New South Wales, Australia |
| Kathy J. Krone | University of Nebraska, USA |
| David Rooney | University of Queensland, Australia |
| Sarah Tracy | Arizona State University, USA |
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