She is a member of the Center for Corporate Communication, and the Knowledge Communication research group. Her background is multidisciplinary, connecting management, rhetoric, linguistics and socio-technical design fields to look at interfaces between business and society. Her current focus is the negotiation of Corporate Social Responsibility. She is currently a member of the Association of Internet Researchers, the Academy of Management, and the IEEE. She is also the Assistant Editor in Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Professional Communications.