The Emergent Organization

Communication As Its Site and Surface

By: Elizabeth J. Van Every, James R. Taylor

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Paperback | 1 November 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Today''s organizations face a wide variety of challenges, including such contradictions as maintaining unity of action while becoming increasingly diverse. Even the definition of organization is changing and evolving. In this monograph, the authors apply their academic and professional experience to address the notion of "organization," setting forth communication as the essential modality for the constitution of organization--explaining how an organization can at the same time be both local and global, and how these properties which give organization continuity over time and across geographically dispersed situations also come to be manifested in the day-to-day of human interpersonal exchange.

As a radical rethinking of the traditional discourse approaches in communication theory, this book develops a conceptual framework based on the idea that "organization" emerges in the mix of conversational and textual communicative activities that together construct organizational identity. Applying concepts from the philosophy of language, linguistics, semiotics, system design, sociology and management theory, the authors put forth a convincing argument demonstrating the materiality of language and its constructive role in organization and society.

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Non-Fiction Business & Management Management & Management Techniques Language & Linguistics Psychology Occupational & Industrial Psychology Organisational Theory & Behaviour Business Communication & Presentation Reference, Information & Interdisciplinary Subjects Interdisciplinary Studies Communication Studies

Preface	p. ix
Theory of Communication	p. 1
Organizational Communication: a New Look	p. 3
Communication as Coorientation	p. 33
How the a Priori Forms of Text Reveal the Organization	p. 69
Language as Technology and Agent	p. 105
Theory of Organization	p. 137
Reinterpreting Organizational Literature	p. 139
from Symbol Processing to Subsymbolic Socially Distributed Cognition	p. 173
Conversation Transformed: Organization	p. 207
Reenacting Enactment	p. 243
Why """"In""""? of Maps, Territories, and Governance	p. 276
References	p. 327
Author Index	p. 341
Subject Index	p. 347
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