My current research involves studying communication of organizations.  Other than what is mentioned below, I have submitted or am in the process of writing papers discovering taxonomies for mission and vision statements*.  These papers, including the ones mentioned below, are some of the first to use software that examines the natural language of documents to discover these taxonomies.  These taxonomies can then be used to establish relationships with other communication methods with each other, with other qualitative data, or with quantitative measurements.  In addition I am looking at how organizations can shape public opinion by how the communication is crafted.  My other research interests include leadership and organizational change.

*I wish to thank my 2016 text analytics class for assisting in the data collection for these papers.  The members of the class are Rocky Bowman, Brett Kingston, Billy Mansfield, Airiana Mitchell, Gerard Nicosia, Matheus Ribeiro, Miguel Rodriquez, and Nick Shaw.

Allison, J. (2019). Mission statements and vision statements: Examining the relationship toward performance outcomes. Global Journal of Management and Marketing.

Allison, J. (2019). Values statements and organizational culture: Does the first actually reflect the second? Global Journal of Management and Marketing.

Allison, J. (2019). Values statements: The missing link between organizational culture, strategic management, and strategic communication. International Journal of Organizational Analysis.

Allison, J. (2017).  A Vision Statement Taxonomy: Linking Strategic Management, Strategic Communication, and Organizational Culture.  Global Journal of Management and Marketing, 1(2), 1-18.*

Allison, J. (2017).  Advancing Strategic Communication Through Mission Statements:  Creation of a Natural Language Taxonomy.  Academy of Strategic Management Journal, 16(3), 1-15.*

Allison, J. (2017).  E-Commerce and the Newspaper Industry: Determinants to First-movership.  Academy of Strategic Management Journal, 16(1), 225-243.

Allison, J. (2017).  Newspaper E-commerce Adoption: A First-mover Precursor and Consequence, 1994-2006.  Global Journal of Management and Marketing, 1(1), 1-20.

Allison, J. (2015). Ethics Statements: A Taxonomy from Natural Language. Paper presented at the meeting of the Christian Business Faculty Association in Virginia Beach, VA.

Allison, J. (2015). Organization Values Statements: A Natural Language Taxonomy. Paper presented at the meeting of the Christian Business Faculty Association in Virginia Beach, VA.

Pillutla, A. & Allison, J. (2001). E-commerce 2.0: Nature of competition and suggestions for effective strategies. Paper presented at the Strategic Management Society 21st Annual International Conference

Allison, J. (2001). E-commerce strategies: A look at choices. Paper presented at the Institute of Behavioral Applied Management Conference in St. Louis, MO

Allison, J. (2001). E-commerce firms versus physical firms: An initial strategy framework. Paper presented at the International Business Economics Conference at DePere, WI.

Allison, J. (2000). Reducing impression management: Selection with accuracy. Paper presented at the meeting of the Industrial/Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Graduate Student Conference in Knoxville, TN

Dissertation - Introducing the Electronic Edition: First-Movers in the Newspaper Industry