Amanda Porter

Professional Summary

Amanda Porter holds a PhD in Organizational Communication and has been teaching courses in communication and business since 2008. She enjoys implementing innovative pedagogical tools that foster collaboration in education. Her research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, including the International Journal of Communication and The European Journal of Information Systems.

Porter teaches Business Communications at the Hankamer School of Business, where she prepares students to become effective and credible communicators. The course focuses on enhancing students’ presentation, writing, and cross-cultural collaboration skills. An innovative feature of this course is the Collaborative Online International Learning (COIL) project, which pairs Baylor students with peers at universities abroad to work together in virtual teams. Porter is committed to fostering an international perspective on business communication.

Education

• 2011 –  PhD, The University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado
• 2007 – MA, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas
• 2004 – BS, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Courses

• BUS 3315 – Business Communications

Research Interests

• Digital collaboration platforms for education
• Collaborative innovation for solving societal challenges
• Cross-cultural business communication

Selected Publications

• Diriker, D., Porter, A. J., & Tuertscher, P. (2023). Orchestrating open innovation through punctuated openness: A process model of open organizing for tackling wicked multi-stakeholder problems. Organization Studies, 44(1), 135-157.
• Hellemans, I., Porter, A.J., Diriker, D., (2021). Harnessing digitalization for Sustainable Development? Understanding how interactions on sustainability-oriented digital platforms are organized to manage tensions and paradoxes. Business Strategy and Environment, 31(2), 668-683. https://doi.org/10.1002/bse.2943
• Porter, A.J., Tuertscher, P., Huysman, M. (2020). Saving our oceans: Tackling grand challenges through crowdsourcing. The Journal of Management Studies, 57(2), 246-286. *Best Paper Award* https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12515
• Porter, A.J., & Van den Hooff, B. (2020). Affordances for control: The complementarity of autonomy and control in mobile work.  European Journal of Information Systems, 20(2), 172-189. https://doi.org/10.1080/0960085X.2020.1728200
• Porter, A.J. (2013). Emergent organization and responsive technologies in crisis: Creating connections or enabling divides? Management Communication Quarterly, (27)1, 6-33. https://doi.org/10.1177/0893318912459042