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...

When Organization Fails develops an entirely new field area of investigation, the study: of authority., which is only now beginning to be recognized as an area where a new generation of scholars can make their reputation as experts. The As a topic, of authority is has rarely rarelyif ever been...

pt. 1. Organizational adaptation to a changing social and technological environment : the hazard of dissonant practitioner and managerial responses -- pt. 2. One horse, many drivers : the complexity of interorganizational collaboration.

The premise of organization as thirdness -- The frame game, and how communication establishes and distributes organizational authority -- Language as both meaning and action -- Text as the constitutive basis of organization -- The accounts of a business, or perhaps rather the business of...