Call for Manuscripts

Crossing Boundaries: Working and Communicating in East Asia

We invite submissions for a special issue to be published January 2014 in the Journal of Business Communication on intercultural business discourse with a particular focus on Asian Business Discourse(s) (ABD).

We are looking for manuscripts that provide

Overview of the field: Past, current, and future

The field of business and organizational discourse has traditionally relied on a Western paradigm/ perspective. Asian Business Discourse(s) is an enterprise with Western antecedents but with increasingly localized expressions, which reflect the concerns and expectations of specific geo-political and socio-economic locales (Bargiela-Chiappini, 2011, emphasis in original). Some East and South East Asian scholarship is still emerging (see: Jung, 2009; Chew, 2009) while other has reached a more advanced stage of development (e.g. Nair-Venugopal, 2009; Cheng, 2009; Zhu and Li, 2009; Tanaka, 2009; Bargiela-Chiappini, 2011).

The proposed volume intends to give a stronger voice to research on business communication practices in Asian countries and build an intersection between scholarship coming out of that region and business practices that would benefit from integrating the findings into their training programs and operational practices. The global economy has created new realities for businesses, and the need for understanding differing communication practices and cultural values is greater than ever, particularly in regard to the surging economies in the East.

Manuscript Submission Guidelines

Researchers are invited to submit complete manuscripts to http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jbc by June 1, 2013. Please select “special issue” when submitting the manuscript to the electronic submission system.

Manuscripts should include a separate title page that includes

A list of 3-5 key words describing the area and focus