Organizational, Business, Management, and Corporate Communication: An Analysis of Boundaries and Relationships

This paper sets out a theory-based analysis of boundaries for four communication-focused subject areas that may be legitimately taught in business schools: organizational communication, business communication, management communication, andcorporate communication. System, process, and product models provide the basis for theanalysis. Those models were derived primarily from published definitions andtaxonomies of the four areas. Such conceptual differentiation allows for a relativelyobjective determination of discipline boundaries and their interrelationships.