Format:
1 online resource (281 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780415529303
,
9781136207334
Content:
This timely collection addresses central issues in communication theory on the nature of organizing and organization. It contributes to the conception of materiality, agency, and discourse in current theorizing and research on the constitution of organizations. Representing scholarship in various parts of the world, it features contributions that overcome traditional conceptions of the nature of organizing by addressing the difficult issues of the performative character of agency; materiality as the basis of the iterability of communication and continuity of organizations; and discourse as both textuality and interaction
Note:
Cover -- Organization and Organizing: Materiality, Agency, and Discourse -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Introduction: The Need for New Materials in the Constitution of Organization -- About the Authors -- Part I Theoretical Developments -- 1 Organizations as Obstacles to Organizing -- 2 Dialectics, Contradictions, and the Question of Agency -- 3 "What's the Story?": Organizing as a Mode of Existence -- 4 Organization as Chaosmos -- 5 Organizations as Entitative Beings: Some Ontological Implications of Communicative Constitution -- 6 What Is an Organization? Or: Is James Taylor a Buddhist? -- 7 Activity Coordination and the Montreal School -- Part II Empirical Explorations -- 8 Spacing Organization: Or How to Be Here and There at the Same Time -- 9 Restructuring Identity through Sectorial Narratives -- 10 Organization by Debate: Exploring the Connections between Rhetorical Argument and Organizing -- 11 Constituting the Temporary Organization: Documents in the Context of Projects -- 12 Organizational Communication at the Crossroads -- Bibliography -- Index
Additional Edition:
Print version Robichaud, Daniel Organization and Organizing Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group,c2013 ISBN 9780415529303
Language:
English
Keywords:
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