Call for Papers
Special Issue on Positive Communication Scholarship
International Journal of Business Communication
https://www.businesscommunication.org/d/do/4316 (.docx file)
Deadline for submission of preliminary extended abstracts: December 2, 2022
The International Journal of Business Communication is inviting papers for a Special Issue in Positive Communication Scholarship. Positive Communication Scholarship (PCS) refers to the rigorous and systematic inquiry into the acts, mechanisms, and processes of social interaction that promote life-sustaining systems. It is a research approach that seeks to identify and measure communication practices and experiences that contribute to human flourishing. It focuses on both communication processes and outcomes with the purpose of generating new knowledge and understanding. PCS is unique in that it takes an affirmative stance toward inquiry and documents/highlights/assesses the nature of positive, generative communication across contexts. PCS is research that cultivates communication praxis and contributes to communication as a practical discipline (see Craig, 1989).
The Special Issue aims to feature research that will exemplify Positive Communication Scholarship in the business sector. Contributions can come from all theoretical and methodological frameworks. We welcome empirical studies, reviews of literature, and pedagogical manuscripts.
Suggested topics include:
- Positive communication in the workplace
- Leadership excellence in the for-profit or non-profit sector
- Strategies for building and maintaining positive organizational cultures
- Effective and inspiring crisis communication
- Dynamics that influence positive communication in networks and teams
- Positive experiences and emotion at work
- Positive communication and ethics
- Positive deviance in business communication practices
- Positive communication in organizational training and development
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
Submit a preliminary extended abstract of 1,000 words by December 2, 2022 to the Guest Editors, Julien Mirivel & Ryan Fuller (jcmirivel@ualr.edu and ryan.fuller@csus.edu) by logging into the Association for Business Communication (ABC) website and using this survey link: https://www.businesscommunication.org/p/su/rd/survey=7f3abc15-eb33-11ec-8d84-bc764e103916
Replies will be sent by January 15, 2023. Full papers of 8000-10000 words are due by March 15, 2023 to that same link. The Special Issue is expected to appear in 2024.
ABOUT THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
The International Journal of Business Communication (IJBC) publishes manuscripts that contribute to knowledge and theory of business communication as a distinct, multifaceted field approached through the administrative disciplines, the liberal arts, and the social sciences. Accordingly, IJBC seeks manuscripts that address all areas of business communication including but not limited to business composition/technical writing, information systems, international business communication, management communication, and organizational and corporate communication. In addition, IJBC welcomes submissions concerning the role of written, verbal, nonverbal and electronic communication in the creation, maintenance, and performance of profit and not for profit business.
IJBC accepts all rigorous research methods, including but not limited to qualitative, quantitative, and critical. IJBC conducts masked reviews in which the Editor, an Associate Editor and two subject-matter experts examine submitted manuscripts. The acceptance rate is currently (2019) about 15%.
Beginning with V. 52 (1) 2015, IJBC will be indexed and abstracted in:
- Social Sciences Citation Index®
- Journal Citation Reports/ Social Sciences Edition
- Current Contents®/Social and Behavioral Sciences.
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