基于科学计量学引文分析方法,本研究以6 743篇英文施引文献和230 661被引文献为数据,通过构建文献共被引知识图谱,呈现出国外组织传播领域的研究旨趣和知识结构。研究结果显示:“组织媒介选择与技术”“虚拟团队传播”“组织危机传播”“传播信息系统与过程”等聚类是国外组织传播研究的主要分支领域。围绕“社交媒体”“网络社区”等以互联网和媒体技术推动的组织传播相关研究可以代表国外组织传播领域的前沿主题。组织传播呈现出多学科、跨学科交叉融合的研究态势,“传播”是该领域研究中心词,整体研究仍由传播学范式主导,但个别议题呈现出传播与组织脱钩趋势。研究方法包括多元数据统计分析方法,以及质的案例研究,不同议题研究需要注意方法的适用性。传播塑造组织,以及“倚重传媒技术发展”的特征深刻影响着组织传播领域未来的研究方向。

Based on the scientometrics method, we use CiteSpace, taking 6743 English citing documents and 230661 cited documents, constructed a co-cited knowledge map of foreign organizational communication research literature and present research interest and knowledge structure of international organizational communication research. Results are as follows: “organizational media selection and technology”, “virtual team communication”, “organizational crisis communication”, “communication information system and process” and other clusters are the main research branches of organizational communication. “Social media” and “network communities”, which promoted by the Internet and media technologies, can represent cutting-edge topics in the field of organizational communication abroad. Organizational communication presents a multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary research integration trend. “Propagation” is the central term of research in this field, research in this field is still dominated by the paradigm of communication, but individual topics show a trend of decoupling between communication and organization. Main methods used by research include multivariate data statistical analysis methods and qualitative case studies. different topics should be paid attention to in terms of the applicability of methods. The characteristics of communication shaping organizations and “reliance on the development of media technology” have a profound influence on the future research of the field of organization communication.