Association for Business Communication

The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is a learned society for the field of business communication. Its mission statement states: "The Association for Business Communication (ABC) is an international organization committed to fostering excellence in business communication scholarship, research, education, and practice". The organization is interdisciplinary, with members belonging to academic fields such as management, marketing, English, foreign languages, speech, communication, linguistics, and information systems. Additionally the organization brings together university academicians, business practitioners, and business consultants.

ABC is an international organization, divided into eight regional divisions (Europe, Asia and Pacific Rim, Caribbean and Central America, and five North American regions: Canada plus Eastern, Midwest, Southeast, and Southwest United States), each with its own separate academic conferences. Each year, the association holds an International Convention in October or November. Midyear, two regional conferences are held—one in the European region and the other in one of the North American regions. The Asia and Pacific Rim region holds a conference every two years.

A board of directors and an executive committee lead the ABC. The board of directors is directly elected with a vice president elected from each of 8 regions and 12 directors at large, with staggered terms. The executive committee consists of a permanent position of executive director and four officers of the association. The members of the executive committee serve for four years in rotating capacity, beginning as second vice president in the first year, then first vice president the next, president the next, and past president the last year on the committee. The organization as a whole elects the second vice president position from among candidates on the board of directors.

The current executive director of the ABC is Betty S. Johnson (Stephen F. Austin State University). She took office in 2007, succeeding Robert J. Myers (Baruch College).

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