Emerging Questions and Research Paradigms in Business Communication Research

Abstract

This is the Outstanding Researcher Award Lecture presented at the 1992 Annual Meet ing of the Association for Business Communication. Each year the Association con siders nominees for the Outstanding Researcher Award and Larry R. Smeltzer is the second person to receive the award. In what may prove to be the start of a tradition, Dr. Smeltzer was invited to deliver a special lecture at the November, 1992, meeting in New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A. This is a slightly revised text of his remarks.

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