Janet Fulk is a Professor of Communications in the Annenberg School for Communication and Professor of Management & Organization in the Marshall School of Business at the University of Southern California. She holds M.B.A. and Ph.D. in administrative sciences from The Ohio State University.

Her publications include three books, one of which won the best book award from the National Communication Association in 1990. Recent articles on organizations and communication technology and NGO networks have appeared in Human Relations, Communication Theory, Human Communication Research and Organization Science, and an award-winning article appeared in Academy of Management Journal.

She has served on the Board of Governors of Academy of Management, where she also was elected Fellow. She served as Deputy Dean of the Academy of Management Fellows from 1999 to 2002.

Her research interests focus on communication and knowledge management, information technology for strategic alliances, and social aspects of knowledge and distributed intelligence. A series of recent projects sponsored by three grants from the National Science Foundation examines how communication and information systems are employed to foster collaboration and knowledge distribution within and between organizations. New projects underway focus on alliances and partnership networks including NGOs and other NGOs, IGOs, and the state.