How can we study organizations from a discursive perspective? What are the characteristics, strengths and weaknesses of each perspective on organizational discourse? To what extent do discourse and communication constitute the organizational world? This accessible book addresses these questions by showing how classical organizational themes, objects and questions can be illuminated from various discursive perspectives.Six approaches are presented and explained: semiotics, rhetoric,...

Qui n’a jamais entendu dire qu’une organisation souffrait d’un « manque de communication » ou qu’une équipe devait « apprendre à mieux communiquer » ? Ces expressions, aussi banales soient-elles, traduisent de réels enjeux liés au rôle clé que joue la communication dans toute forme organisée. Pour s’organiser, c’est-à-dire pour agir collectivement d’une manière minimalement coordonnée et efficace, il faut, en effet, pouvoir communiquer les uns avec les autres afin, entre autres, de partage...

Perspectivas metateóricas da cultura e da comunicação, terceiro volume da coleção Faces da cultura e da comunicação organizacional, reúne uma diversidade de especialistas notáveis com o intuito de examinar as maneiras multifacetadas de interação entre organizações, comunicação e cultura. Sob perspectivas distintas, os autores analisam a constituição da cultura organizacional e sua condição em um mundo no qual as organizações estão em constante evolução e, nesse exercício, oferecem novas di...

This work provides an exceptional case study, shedding light onto the functioning of an actual corporate board of directors. It presents analysis of a series of corporate management meetings shown in the 1974 documentary film, Corporation: After Mr. Sam. The film chronicles the discussion and communication processes as a company considers how to replace its president, and it serves as a unique opportunity for analysis of real-world organizational discourse.With an impressi...

The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism—and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism, heralded by social and organizational theorists alike, increasingly focus attention on communication as both vital to the conduct of work and as imperative to organizational performance. Yet mo...

Authority and Power in Social Interaction explores methods of analyzing authority and power in the minutiae of interaction. Drawing on the expertise of a diverse international team of organizational communication and language and social interaction scholars, this book suggests reverting the perspective that notions of authority and power constrain human activity, to determine how people (re)create them through conversation and other joint action.Confronting several perspectives wit...

Recipient of the '2013 Top Edited Book Award', by the Organizational Communication Division of the National Communication Association (USA)This timely collection addresses central issues in organizational communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. The unique strength of this volume is its contribution to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution of organizations. It addresses s...

Communication as Organizing unites multiple reflections on the role of language under a single rubric: the organizing role of communication. Stemming from Jim Taylor's earlier work, The Emergent Organization: Communication as Its Site and Surface (LEA, 2000), the volume editors present a communicational answer to the question, "what is an organization?" through contributions from an international set of scholars and researchers. The chapter authors synthesize various line...

In our daily experiences, we feel, perceive, designate, invoke or comment on a plurality of beings: people, artifacts, technologies, institutions, projects, animals, divinities, emotions, cultures, ideologies or opinions that are part of our world. While these beings are all part of our world, they present various forms of existence. Echoing recent developments in existential anthropology, Communication as Constitutive of Organization (CCO) research, and Actor Network Theory, here scholars...

The field of organisational communication has been rapidly transforming in the wake of the linguistic and discursive turns that have been sweeping across the social sciences since the mid-eighties. These ‘turns’ have prompted organisational communication scholars to look more closely at how they think about communication and its relationship to the organisation and the process of organizing.What has emerged from these reflections is a perspective that proposes communication is not merely s...