Studying branding strategies of family firms gives rise to a striking observation: an increasing
number of family firms nowadays communicate the “family” nature of their organizations. We …

From the disciplinary perspective of communication studies, we review theory and research
in family communication, including a brief history of the family communication field; the …

While most studies on family firm branding report positive reputational consequences, we
lack empirical evidence to which degree these benefits vary across different geographical …

For many, the study of communication in the context of health care has an importance that
goes beyond other areas of communication inquiry. Most likely, this is because the …

This article argues that contrapuntal analysis and intersectional analysis are particularly
germane for realizing the emergent critical turn in interpersonal and family communication …

postpositivist and interpretive lenses. At its most basic level, the JFC special issue “Critical
Approaches to Family Communication Research: Representation, Critique, and Praxis” aims …

Families formed through transracial adoption face communicative challenges not faced by
single-race families. Drawing upon communication privacy management theory and …

Despite modest growth in interpretive research, the study of family communication remains
predominantly situated within postpositivism to the relative neglect of critical approaches …

This study explored associations among family communication patterns (conversation and
conformity orientations), health-specific communication variables, health attitudes, and …

We use the gender relations perspective from feminist theorizing to investigate how gender
and daily emotion work predict daily relationship quality in 74 couples (148 individuals in …