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Edition: April, 2026 – Vol. 63, no. 2
Edition: April, 2026
Vol. 63, no. 2
Subordinate Articulated Dissent as Influenced by Supervisor Behaviors: The Hazards of Humor

Stephanie Kelly, Cheng Zeng, and Michael K. Cundall, Jr.



Collective Responsibility in the Workplace and its Effects on COVID-19 Vaccine Acceptance Among Employees: The Role of Strategic Internal Communication

Jo-Yun Li, Weiting Tao, and Yeunjae Lee



Is Cyberloafing an Outcome of Supervisor Phubbing: Examining the Roles of Workplace Ostracism and Psychological Detachment

Anubhuti Saxena and Shalini Srivastava



"She's the Anti-Midas, Everything Turns to Crap": Evocative Metaphors Managers and Employees Use to Describe Managerial Attempts at Enacting Leadership

Leah M. Omilion-Hodges and Scott E. Shank Jr.



Communicating the Big Picture with Employees: The Impacts of CEO Vision Communication on Employee Engagement

Yufan Sunny Qin, Marcia W. DiStaso, Alexis Bajalia Fitzsimmons, and Eve Heffron



How Avoidant Leadership Style Turns Employees Into Adversaries: The Impact of Laissez-Faire Leadership on Employee-Organization Relationships and Employee Communicative Behavior

Jie Jin and Linjuan Rita Men



The Role of Leader Communication in Fostering Respectful Workplace Culture and Increasing Employee Engagement and Well-Being

Justin F. Willett Danielle LoGree, Haejung Shin, J. Brian Houston , and Margaret Duffy



Words Matter: Measuring the Co-Operative Identity Crisis

Marc-Andre Pigeon and Daphne Rixon



Cultural Value Adaptation in Advertising is Effective, But Not Dependable: A Meta-Analysis of 25 Years of Experimental Research

Jos Hornikx, Anne Janssen, and Daniel J. O'Keefe



How Value Congruence and Issue Relevance Affect Consumer Reactions to Corporate Political Advocacy

Leping You, Linda Hon, and Yu-Hao Lee



"They Masked our Children": School District Communication Officers' Sensemaking of Parent Activists During the COVID-19 Pandemic

Brian K. Richardson, Samantha Cosgrove, and Amnee Elkhalid



Short Note - Revisiting Formality in Contemporary Business Interaction: A Conceptual Framework

Mie Femo Nielsen



Let's Influence That Attitude Before It's Formed: Inoculation Against Reactance to Promote DEI Training

Roger Gans and Mengqi Monica Zhan



From Organizational Gossip to a Corporate Crisis: A Network Analysis of Anonymous Online Communication on the Blind Application

Kayoung Kim and Sun Kyong Lee



Cross-National Study of Transparency in CSR Communication and Corporate Trust: Mediating Roles of Perceived Altruism and Perceived Skepticism

Hyejoon Rim, Chuqing Dong, and Yafei Zhang



An Integrated Framework for Exploring the Impact of Leadership Communication on Employee Trust During Disruptive Crisis Times

Linjuan Rita Men, Yufan Sunny Qin, Alexis Bajalia Fitzsimmons, Marcia W. DiStaso, and Eve Heffron



Don't Mess With Mama Bear: How Workplace Bullying Bystanders Find Meaning in Their Role

Jenilee Crutcher Williams and Michelle T. Violanti



Optimizing AI Social Chatbots for Relational Outcomes: The Effects of Profile Design, Communication Strategies, and Message Framing

Alvin Zhou, Wan-Hsiu Sunny Tsai, and Linjuan Rita Men

Edition: January, 2026
Vol. 63, no. 1
_3_ "The Leopard Does Not Change Its Spots": Structuration Theory and the Process of Managerial Decision-Making Regarding Popular Management Theories

Sonya Pagel and Robert Westerfelhaus



_37_ On the Hazards of the Technology Age: How Using Emojis Affects Perceptions of Leaders

Monica A. Riordon and Ella Glikson



_59_ The Project Communication and Trust Nexus as an Antecedents of Project Success: Moderating Role of Authentic Leadership

Haleema Majeed, Umar Nawaz Kayani, and Syed Arslan Haider



_81_ Supervisor Computer-Mediated Immediate Behaviors: Fostering Subordinate Communication

Stephanie Kelly, Ayana Dawkins, Kenneth T. Rocker Jr., Shonai Someshwar, and Travis Penny



_102_ Increasing Employee Motivation to Lead Through an Understanding of Communication Apprehension

Jay Jones-Carmarck



_130_ Examining the Influence of Algorithmic Message Personalization on Source Credibility and Reputation

Natalie Brown-Devlin, Hayoung Sally Lim, and Jingyue Tao



_154_ Employee-Organization Identity Fusion: Connecting Leadership and Symmetrical Internal Communication to Identity- and Engagement-Related Outcomes

Arunima Khrisna



_183_ Value Creation in Start-Up Discourse: Linking Pitch and Venture Through Logics of Justification

German Varas, Omar Sabaj, Clay Spinuzzi, Miguel Fuentes, Valentin Gerard, and Paula Cabezas

Edition: October, 2025
Vol. 62, no. 4
Qualitative Methods in Business Communication: Interpreting the Language and Images of Business.


- The Importance of Multimodal Resources for Micro-Oriented Analyses of Interaction: A Case Study of Emergent Leadership in a Hybrid Meeting.


- Qualitative Considerations for Building Corpora of Business-Related Texts.


- Best Practices for Sampling, Saturation, and Storytelling in Interview-Based Research: Findings from business communication research.
Edition: July, 2025
Vol. 62, no. 3
_439_ Relative Leader-Member Exchange Within Work Groups: The Mediating Effect of Leader-Member Conversation Quality on Group-Focused Citizenship Behavior

Hassan Abu Bakar and Stacey L Connaughton



_462_ Proving Yourself: How Top Executives Relate Their Leadership Experience

Ellen S. O'Connor and Denise M. Lucy



_495_ Leadership Communication on Internal Digital Platforms, Emotional Capital, and Corporate Performance: The Case for Leader-Centric Listening

Peter W. Cardon, Yumi Huang, and Gerard Power



_522_ Followers' Perceptions of Positive Communication Practices in Leadership: What Matters and Surprisingly What Does Not

Maryam Biganeh and Stacy L. Young



_542_ Health-Promoting Leadership and Leaders' Listening Skills Have an Impact on the Employees' Job Satisfaction and Turnover Intention Anta Bregenzer, Borut Milfelner, Simona Šarotar Žižek, and Paul Jiménez



_562_ Engaging Startup Employees via Charismatic Leadership Communication: The Importance of Communicating "Vision, Passion, and Care"

Linjuan Rita Men, Yufan Sunni Qin, and Renee Mitson



_583_ Testing the Theory of Communication and Uncertainty Management in the Context of Digital Transformation with Transformational Leadership as a Moderator

Masaki Matsunaga



_608_ Human-Centered Leadership Development: A Communication-Based Approach for Promoting Authentic and Transformational Leadership

Abram D. Anders
Edition: April, 2025
Vol. 62, no. 2
_216_ The Influence of Supervisors' Use of Motivating Language in Organizations Located in India

Paul E. Madlock and Brooke Hildebrand Clubbs



_234_ Creating Organizational Authenticity and Identification: Effect of Leaders' Motivating Language and Impact on Employee Advocacy

Cen April Yue



_258_ Affective and Cognitive Trust as Mediators in the Influence of Leader Motivating Language on Personal Initiative

Bin Ling and Yue Guo



_281_ An Examination of the Link between Leader Motivating Language and Follower Interactional Justice

Albi Alikaj and Doreen Hanke



_307_ Motivating Language Intensity: A Study of Wyoming Superintendents Motivating Language Use as Perceived by Their Principals

William T. Holmes and Michele A. Parker



_326_ Can We Talk? Improving Employee Contextual Performance Using Motivating Language and Feedback Orientation

Emily Elsner Twesme, Jan M. Werner, and Aditya Simha



_347_ The Power Of Words: How Does Leader's Motivating Language Affect Employees' Organization Commitment

Hang Zhao and Mohd Helmi Ali



_379_ Self-Leadership and Psychological Capital as Mediators in the Influence of Leader Motivating Language on Everyday Innovative Behavior

Wei Su and Juhee Hahn



_402_ Authentic leadership, Motivating Language, Psychological Empowerment, and Work Engagement: A Serial Mediation Model

Bulent Uluturk, Elgiz Yilmaz Altuntas, and Pelin Hürmeriç
Edition: January, 2025
Vol. 62, no. 1
_4_ Mediating Effects of Upward Communications on the Relationship Between Team Autonomy and Burnout: A Study of Employees at Care Facilities in Japan

Ikushi Yamaguchi



_22_ Complexity as a Driver of Media Choice: A Comparative Study of Domestic and International Teams

Torbjørn Bjorvatn and Andreas Wald



_44_ Information and Communication Technology Support for Contextualization, Polychronic Values, and Job Satisfaction: Evidence From Virtual Teams

Yaguang Zhu and Stephanie A. Smith



_62_ Trust Me: Interpersonal Communication Dominance as a Tool for Influencing Interpersonal Trust Between Coworkers

Luke A. Langlinais, Heath A. Howard, and Jeffrey D. Houghton



_84_ Workplace Romance and Career Reputation Effects across Industries

Rebecca M. Chory, Lisa Mainiero, and Sean M. Horan



_106_ The Use of Humor in Employee-to-Employee Workplace Communication: A Systematic Review With Thematic Synthesis

Stephen Taylor, Jane Simpson, and Claire Hardy



_131_ Should I Speak Up? How Supervisory Communication, Team Culture, and Team Relationships Determine Employees' Voice Behavior

Cen April Yue, Patrick Thelen, and Aniisu K. Verghese



_161_ We're In This Together: Visible Social Support Actions in Virtual Teams Using Enterprise Social Media

Michael S. Henry, Douglas A. Parry, and Daniel B. Le Roux



_187_ Methods Showcase–Using PLSF-SEM in Business Communication Research

Ned Kock
Edition: October, 2024
Vol. 61, no. 4
Edition: April, 2024
Vol. 61, no. 2
Editorial

Notes From the Editors - Leveraging Effective Altruism: CSR Communication That Pays It Forward

Jacqueline Mayfield and Milton Mayfield



Articles

The Role of Public Skepticism and Distrust in the Process of CSR Communication

Sara Kim and Hyejoon Rim



NPOs' Voice in CSR Partnership: An Exploratory Study Using Topic Modeling

Chuqing Dong and Yafei Zhang



Exploring Variations in Corporations' Communication After a CA Versus CSR Crisis: A Semantic Network Analysis of Sustainability Reports

Keanyoung Park, Hyejin Kim, and Hyejoon Rim



Firm-Determined or Consumer-Determined Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR)? Examining the Effects of Choice-of-Cause in Cause-Related Marketing

Weiting Tao and Yi Grace Ji



Driving Employee Engagement through CSR Communication and Employee Perceived Motives: The Role of CSR-Related Social Media Engagement and Job Engagement

Hua Jiang and Yi Luo



Making Change Happen: Exploring the Change Discourse of Managers in a CSR Context

Aurore Haas and Pascale De Rozario



Social Media Influencer Effects on CSR Communication: The Role of Influencer Leadership in Opinion and Taste

Yang Cheng, Chun-Ju Flora Hung-Baesecke, and Yi-Ru Regina Chen



Stories or Expositive Messages? Comparing Their Effectiveness in Corporate Social Responsibility Communication

Andrea Perez, Elisa Baraibar-Diez, and Maria del Mar Garcia de los Salmones



Tracking CSR Communication Research Within the Chinese Context: A Systematic Literature Review

Chuqing Dong, Baobao Song, Yang Cheng, and Qi Zheng



Climate Change as Represented in Corporate Social Responsibility Reports of American and Chinese Energy Giants: A Critical Frame Analysis Perspective

Yang Zhang and Jingyuan Zhang



Commentary - Much ado About Something Else, Donald Trump, the US Stock Market, and the Public Interest Ethics of Social Media Communication

Leonella Gori, Pier Luigi Sacco, Emanuele Teti, and Francesca Triveri



Spotlight on a Thought Leader - How to Become and Effective Communicator: Schulz von Thun's Contribution to Business Communication

Fabienne Bunzli and Martin J. Eppler



Book Review

Positive Communication for Leaders: Proven Strategies for Inspiring Unity and Effecting Change by Mirvel J. C. and Lyon A.

Reviewed by Jacqueline Mayfield and Milton Mayfield

Edition: January, 2024
Vol. 61, no. 1
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