Books written by Elizabeth J. Van Every
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The Situated Organization: Case Studies in the Pragmatics of Communication Research
Recent work by Anderson (2004), Kirsch and Neff (2008), Piette (forthcoming), and Sergi (forthcoming) sheds a new light on the communicational basis of organization, as emerging out of conversation but inscribed in text.
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The Vulnerable Fortress: Bureaucratic Organization and Management in the Information Age
A ' resource - based approach Some further insight into these trends has been provided by Williamson ( 1975 ; 1977 ) , who has developed , building on Chandler's ( 1962 ; 1977 ) work , a theory of transaction cost .
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The Emergent Organization: Communication As Its Site and Surface
which these processes occur, particularly regarding transformation, are left ambiguous in Giddens' model.” We think this understates the case.12 How much simpler it would be to say that the modality which is common to signification, ...
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When Organization Fails: Why Authority Matters
Giddens (1984) made the relevant observation that although authority may sup- port power, the converse does not hold: power also derives from control over essential resources. Power that derives from access to resources does not always ...
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The Situated Organization: Case Studies in the Pragmatics of Communication Research
Graham (the businessman with contacts in Edmonton) noted that the EUB application process currently relied only on the developers' estimates of risks to the environment. In its application, for example, Graham alleged that, ...
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Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation
Interactions on the phone and over e-mail about the definition of Royal Fleet PT+ between the members of the Hotville and the Snowfield organizations came to a complete stop when Greg refused to continue discussions with Anthony.
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Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation
This distinctive volume encourages readers to discover and develop a truly communicational means of addressing the question of organization, addressing how organization itself emerges in the course of communicational transactions.
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Communication as Organizing: Empirical and Theoretical Explorations in the Dynamic of Text and Conversation
This book is intended for use in advanced seminars and graduate courses, and will appeal to individual scholars, and researchers in organizational communication, organizational psychology, and management.