The Situated Organization

Case Studies in the Pragmatics of Communication Research
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-0-415-88168-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 229 mm, Gewicht: 393 g

Reihe: Routledge Communication Series

The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication, emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices. Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach, it focuses not only on how an organization’s members understand the purposes of the organization through communication, but also on how they realize and recognize the organization itself as they work within it.

The text breaks through with an alternative viewpoint to the currently popular idea of 'organization-as-network,' viewing organization instead as a configuration of agencies, and their fields of practice. It serves as an original, comprehensive, and well-written text, elaborated by case studies that make the theory come to life. The substantial ideas and insights are presented in a deep and meaningful way while remaining comprehensible for student readers.

This text has been developed for students at all levels of study in organizational communication, who need a systematic introduction to conducting empirical field research. It will serve as an invaluable sourcebook in planning and conducting research.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Taylor, James R

Every, Elizabeth J van

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationsmanagement, Public Relations
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Public Relations

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: The Puzzle of Organization

The Premise of Organization as Thirdness

The Frame Game, And How Communication Establishes and Distributes Organizational Authority

Language as Both Meaning and Action

PART TWO: RESEARCH

Text as the Constitutive Basis of Organization

The Accounts of a Business—Or Perhaps Rather the Business of Accounting?

Playing On the Game while Playing In the Game—Frames, Identities and the "Fall Plan"

The Organization as Text

The "Western," 21st Century Version—Mapping the Boundaries Through Texts

PART THREE: SYNTHESIS

The Organization as Thirdness, or How to Do Organizational Communication Research

Über Autor(innen)

James R. Taylor is Professor Emeritus and founder of the Department of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author, co-author or editor of six books, including The Emergent Organization (2000).

Elizabeth J. Van Every is an historian and sociologist by training and has worked in both the public and private sectors. She has co-authored two previous books with James Taylor: The Vulnerable Fortress (1993) and The Emergent Organization (2000) as well as co-edited The Computerization of Work (2001) and Communication as Organizing (2006).