Doerfel, M. L., & Ruben, B. D. (2002). Benchmarking in higher education: Becoming more adaptive, innovative, and interactive organizations. In B. E. Bender & J. Schuh (Eds.), Using benchmarking to inform practice in higher education (pp. 3-25). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Doerfel, M. L. (2005). Communication and networking: The relationship between communication and life in organizations. In L. Lederman, W. D. Gibson, & M. Taylor (Eds.), Communication theory: A casebook approach (2nd Ed.) (pp. 209-225). Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt.

Doerfel, M. L. & Toshach, J. L. (2006). Ten floundering women: Facilitating an investment club’s chance to change, in L. R. Frey (Ed.), Facilitating group communication in context: Innovations and applications with natural groups: Vol. 2. Facilitating group task and team communication, (pp. 129-152). Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press. (competitive book chapter).

** Book awarded the 2007 Ernest Bormann Research Award (for Distinguished Scholarly Book) from the Group Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

** Book award the 2007 Distinguished Book Award from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association.

Doerfel, M. L. (2008) Interorganizational Communication. The International Encyclopedia of Communication. W. Donsbach (Ed.). Blackwell Publishing, Blackwell Reference Online. 05 June 2009

Doerfel, M. L. (2011). Kabul media development: A network analysis of the media sector, 2011.Washington, DC: Internews.

Doerfel, M. L. (2013). Afghanistan media development, 2013: Network analyses of multiple media sectors in Kabul, Balkh, Herat, Kandahar, and Nangarhar. Washington, DC: Internews.

Doerfel, M. L., & Gibbs, J. (2014). Field research in organizational communication studies. In L. L. Putnam, & D. K. Mumby (Eds.), New Handbook of Organizational Communication (pp. 223-244). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Doerfel, M. L., Chewning, L. V., & Lai, C-H. (2014, February). Communicating to build strong inter- organizational networks: Communication-based business insurance. Communication Currents, 9 (1). Available online at .

Doerfel, M. L. (2015). Networked Forms of Organizing, Disaster-Related Disruptions, and Public Health. In T. R. Harrison, & Williams, E. A. (Eds.), Organizations, Health, and Communication (pp. 365- 383). New York: Routledge.

Doerfel, M. L. (2015). Interorganizational networks. In W. Donsbach (Ed.), Concise Encyclopedia of Communication (pp. 293-294). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.