Trends in Organizational Communication Research: Sustaining the Discipline, Sustaining Ourselves

Abstract

This paper began as a keynote address delivered at the 16th annual Organizational Communication Mini‐Conference hosted by Western Michigan University. In it, I identify topical trends in organizational communication research, noting ways in which these trends are flexible, enduring, diverse, and problem‐centered. I go on to invite current doctoral students to join us in developing these trends further. Specifically, I discuss how we might engage research in ways that sustain the vitality of the discipline as well as our own personal vitality. I conclude by offering a list of key articles that could serve as starting points in the on‐going conversation centered around organizational communication.

Keywords:

• Organizational Communication
• Research Trends
• Disciplinary Vitality
• Personal Vitality

Notes

Kathy Krone is at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. This paper was the keynote address delivered at the 16th annual Organizational Communication mini‐conference, Western Michigan University, October 3–5, 2003. Correspondence to: Kathy Krone, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588‐0329, USA. Tel: [phone]; Email: [email protected]

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Kathy Krone

Kathy Krone is at the Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, Lincoln, Nebraska. This paper was the keynote address delivered at the 16th annual Organizational Communication mini‐conference, Western Michigan University, October 3–5, 2003. Correspondence to: Kathy Krone, Department of Communication Studies, University of Nebraska‐Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588‐0329, USA. Tel: [phone]; Email: [email protected]