Academic publisher SAGE has announced the appointment of Dr. Ling Chen as the Editor in Chief of Management Communication Quarterly (MCQ), effective in the summer of 2012. Dr. Chen will replace Dr. James Barker who has served as editor for MCQ since 2006.
Chen has more than a decade-long history with MCQ, having served as an editorial board member and as an associate editor. Additionally, she worked as editor and editorial board member on several other publications including the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships and Discourse & Communication. In her current position at Hong Kong Baptist University, Chen serves as an associate professor of Communication Studies and as the Research Graduate Student Coordinator at the School of Communication.
Management Communication Quarterly is a peer-reviewed journal that covers a variety of topics related to communication and organisational contexts. It publishes conceptually rigorous, empirically-driven, and practice-relevant research from across the organisational and management communication fields and has strong appeal across all disciplines concerned with organisational studies and the management sciences.
