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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. Top page

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Publisher & Imprint: Routledge

City: London

Pages: 288

More info: height 229 mm width 152 mm weight 540 gr

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Age recommended: College/higher education

Subject Indexing & Classification Dewey:(DC22) 302.2 Library of Congress Subject: Communication in organizations

Record updated at: 10 June, 2013 time: 20:32

Summary The Situated Organization Prologue: The Puzzle of Organization PART ONE: THEORY Chapter 1: The Premise of Organization as Thirdness Preliminary Remarks: Connecting to Weick's View of Enactment What is "Thirdness"? Adding in Communication The Explanatory Challenge We Now Address Toward an Explanation Organization as a Thirdness: Establishing its Agency and its Authority The Authoring of Organization A Concluding Note Suggested Supplementary Readings Chapter 2: The Frame Game, And How Communication Establishes and Distributes Organizational Authority Games: Situated and Not Situated Von Neumann's theory of games Situation and why it is important Pragmatism in Dewey's interpretation Focus and frames Goffman's Interpretation of Game Theory The information game and thirdness Bateson and Meta-Communication Wittgenstein's Concept of a Game--a "Language Game" Mapping the Organization, Communicatively Speaking Maps and organization Playing the Frame Game: Or How to Authorize the "Map" Doing Field Research in an Imbricated Organization Suggested Supplementary Readings Chapter 3: Language as Both Meaning and Action Cybernetics, Information Theory and Noam Chomsky's Linguistics Wittgenstein Again John Austin and Speech Acts Modality Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis Labov and Fanshel: Language and Thirdness M. A. K. Halliday: A Social Semiotic View of Reflexivity Conclusion Suggested Supplementary Readings PART TWO: RESEARCH Chapter 4: Text as the Constitutive Basis of Organization The text in the conversation "Espacer l'organisation: trajectoires d'un projet de diffusion de la science et de la technologie au Chili" Down-linking: Building a Local Program by Enlisting Scientists Up-linking: The Other Dimension of Organizational Coherence Act II: in Santiago Summary of Analysis Vasquez' Singular View of Organization Conclusion Suggested Supplementary Readings Chapter 5: The Accounts of a Business--Or Perhaps Rather the Business of Accounting? "Les activites de production de l'information budgetaire: Communications organisationnelles et regulations, le cas d'une entreprise de BTP" The Organizational Context of Faure's Research The Performative Dimension of an ERP-type System Updating the Budget: The Organization in the Conversation Selecting a Communicative Event for Analysis Analysis Imbrication Reexamined: The Role of the Third Party A Word on the Limitations of Formal Accounting Text as the basis of organization Suggested Supplementary Reading Chapter 6: Playing On the Game while Playing In the Game--Frames, Identities and the "Fall Plan" How to constitute the organization in a text Senem Guney's Study: "An Ethnographic Case Study of 'Building the Box'" The "Fall Plan": Text versus context The "NuevoHyp Episode": Partners? Or Competitors? Conclusion Suggested Supplementary Readings Chapter 7: The Organization as Text Sandrine Virgili's Study: "La construction mutuelle de la technologie et de l'organisation en phase de developpement: Une perspective communicationnelle appliquee a l'etude d'un ERP" The Research Site: "Labopharma" The Conversation in the Text, and the Text in the Conversation Conversation # 1: Different "Maps" Conversation #2:"Telepresence" Conclusion Suggested Supplementary Readings Chapter 8: The "Western," 21st Century Version--Mapping the Boundaries Through Texts "Communicating in the Field: The Role of Boundary Objects in a Collaborative Stakeholder Initiative" Heron Lake Watershed Synergy Group (HLWSG) The Fall Meetings, 2005 Conclusion Suggested Supplementary Reading PART THREE: SYNTHESIS Chapter 9: The Organization as Thirdness, or How to Do Organizational Communication Research Theorizing communication On Being an Organizational Communication Researcher Toward a Research Strategy What is Organizational Communication Research? Suggested Supplementary Reading Bibliography Top page

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