David Victor Vector: November 2014

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Friday, November 7, 2014

GABC Journal Third Issue Published

The third issue of the Global Advances in Business Communication Journal has just been published.

The GABC Journal is co-sponsored by Eastern Michigan University, the University of Antwerp and the Technological University of Malaysia.

This is a free journal available online at

http://commons.emich.edu/gabc/

Since our first issue through today's post (November 7, 2014), the journal has had 13,672 downloads (as of November 4, 2014). This is an exceptionally high response to a new journal.

Five articles have had over 1000 hits. The highest article has had over 3200 hits. This is "Global Advances in Business Communication from Multiple Perspectives: A Panel Discussion from Experts in the Field."

The new issue contains articles from some of the top scholars in the field coming from China, Mexico, Japan and the United States:

“Mobile Phone Use in Meeting among Chinese Professionals: Perspectives on Multicommunication and Civility” co-authored by Peter Cardon of the University of Southern California Marshall School of Business (and current President of the Association for Business Communication) and Ying Dai of the Shanghai Business School

“The Relationship Between Culture and Legal Systems and the Impact on Intercultural Business Communication”

co-authored by Iris Varner and Katrin Varner, both of Illinois State University College of Business

“The Role of Linguistic Ability and Business Expertise for Turn-taking in intercultural Business Communication,"

by Misa Fujio of Toyo University, Tokyo, Japan
"Managerial Use of Text Messaging in International Organizations" co-authored by José Guadalupe Torres and Roger Conaway both of the ITESM - San Luis Potosí, Mexico

Please do download the article and let me know what you think.

More About David Victor's Academic Experience

I teach at the Eastern Michigan University College of Business I am also editor of the Global Advances in Business Communication. http://commons.emich.edu/gabc/

Among other subjects, I teach Managing World Business Communication, Fundamentals of Global Business, international business ethics, international business, Business Ethics/CSR, and International Management as well as a series of "Doing Business In..." seminars for business in specific countries and regions. My course at EMU in Managing World Business Communication first designed and taught nearly 20 years ago was among the first regularly taught on cross-cultural business communication in an AACSB-accredited school.

From 1996-1997, I was President of the Association for Business Communication and helped to establish the European and the Asia/Pacific regions of that organization. In 2010, I was honored to have won the Meada Gibbs Outstanding Teaching Award, an international prize given by the Association for Business Communication. Over the years, I have received 6 grants from a variety of sources including the US Department of Education and the Federal Government of Canada. .

In 1992, I was the first recipient of the Distinguished Visiting Foreign Professorship (Graduate Level) of the InstitutoTecnologico y EstudiosSuperiores de Monterrey. I was also a Visiting Professor at the University of Antwerp in Belgium in 2008 and at the Universidade do Caxias do Sul in Brazil in 2010. I also hold classes for Saint Mary's of California's TransGlobal Executive MBA students.

About David Victor’s Consulting Experience

I have consulted since the mid-1980’s, mostly in the area of international business communication, expatriate relocation and diversity management for a range of clients including school systems, hospital networks and city and state governments as well as a wide range of companies working domestically in the United States as well as in Canada, Mexico, East Asia and Europe. I have consulted and run programs for over 150 companies and organizations, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to the state governments of Idaho, Iowa and Michigan, the American Bar Association and the US Army as well as several city governments and health systems in the US and abroad.