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Association Overview: The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is an international organization committed to fostering excellence in business communication scholarship, research, education, and practice. The membership of the ABC, like the field of business communication, is richly interdisciplinary, drawing members from such fields as management, marketing, English, speech communication, linguistics, information systems, to name only a few. Our membership also encompasses communication consultants and other business practitioners. We have a strong membership base in North America, Europe, and Asia and the Pacific. Business communication faculty, students, and practitioners are all invited to join the Association for Business Communication (ABC). Size of membership is available under a searchable member directory in the “Members Only” section of the ABC website. ABC publishes two quarterly academic journals:  ·  // The Journal of Business Communication // (JBC) includes 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.  ·  // Business Communication Quarterly // (BCQ) focuses on the teaching and practice of business communication. The following provides an overview of **//Journal of Business Communication//**, as well as key words by year and by issue.

Official Publication of the [|Association for Business Communication] The **Journal of Business Communication** (**JBC**) publishes peer-reviewed, rigorous original research that contributes to the knowledge and theory of business communication as a distinct, multifaceted field approached through the administrative disciplines, the liberal arts, and the social sciences. Articles in **JBC** 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, the journal **JBC** 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.  Use and effects of email in organizational; communication; international business communication; information seeking; personality; collaboration; conducting interdisciplinary research. || ** Volume 43, Issue 1 - January 2006: **  Peer evaluation; project teams; business communication; communication in management; bilingual communication; customer relations. || **Volume 44, Issue 1 ** - **January 2007 **:  Communication technology; multicommunicating; multitasking; internet; online communication; instant messaging.    ||  Crisis management; mindfulness; situational awareness; crisis communication; dyadic communication; procedural justice; career stability; workplace writing; writing in the disciplines; defining visual rhetoric (book review). || ** Volume 43, Issue 2 - April 2006: **  Corporate culture; work environment; lectures & lecturing; business communication; communication in organizations; organizational change; corporate communication; corporate image; business writing; electronic mail messages; universities & colleges. || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Volume 44, Issue 2 - ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> E-mail; computer mediated communication (CMC); nonverbal cues; recipient's personality; five factor model; uncertainty reduction; emoticons. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Corporate art collections and image; customer satisfaction and sociality by service provider type; Challenger; communicative rules and organizational decision making; editors influence; scholarly publishing; integrating pets into the workplace. || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Volume 43, Issue 3 - July 2006: ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS">Business communication; communication in management; learning & scholarship; conversation analysis; leadership; electronic mail messages; instant messaging; business etiquette; communication study & teaching; business education; communication & culture; interdisciplinary approach to knowledge; multiculturalism/diversity (book review). <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS">Volume 44, Issue 3 **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> - <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Cultural identity; intercultural communication; Internet; globalization; multinational corporations; business communication; electronic communication; intercultural communication; interagency collaboration. || <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Employee knowledge transfer; motivation; linguistics of corporate annual reports; manager use of email for delivery of bad news; crisis communications to stakeholders; managerial reading. || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Volume 43, Issue 4 - October 2006: ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Business communication; communication in management; leadership; employees, self-directed work teams; language; business enterprises; motivation (psychology); communication in organization; teams in the workplace; applications; interest (psychology); technical writing. || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Volume 4, Issue 4 - ** <span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> Action research; networking; international business communication; genre communication; language-based communication; crisis communication; commercial speech. ||
 * // Journal of Business Communication //**
 * Description from the Association for Business Communication website: **
 * Key Words by Year: **
 * ** 2005 ** || ** 2006 ** || ** 2007 ** ||
 * Business communication; crisis communication; management and careers. || Business communication; management; organizational change and culture; work teams. || Business communication; communication technology; collaboration; intercultural communication. ||
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 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> 2005 ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> 2006  ** || **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS"> 2007  ** ||
 * **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS">Volume 42, Issue 1 – January 2005: **<span style="FONT-FAMILY: ComicSansMS; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-hansi-font-family: ComicSansMS">
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