E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten
Case Studies in the Pragmatics of Communication Research
E-Book, Englisch, 288 Seiten
Reihe: Routledge Communication Series
ISBN: 978-1-136-94573-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)
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.
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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 activités de production de l’information budgetaire: Communications organisationnelles et régulations, le cas d’une entreprise de BTP"
- The Organizational Context of Fauré’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 Güney’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 développement: Une perspective communicationnelle appliquée à l’étude 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
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