The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication : Advances in Theory, Research, and Methods

Organizational communication as a field of study has grown tremendously over the past thirty years. This growth is characterized by the development and application of communication perspectives to research on complex organizations in rapidly changing environments. Completely re-conceptualized, The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, Third Edition, is a landmark volume that weaves together the various threads of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship. This edition captures both the changing nature of the field, with its explosion of theoretical perspectives and research agendas, and the transformations that have occurred in organizational life with the emergence of new forms of work, globalization processes, and changing organizational forms. Exploring organizations as complex and dynamic, the Handbook brings a communication lens to bear on multiple organizing processes. - Publisher. Approaches to Research on the Communicative Constitution of Organizations Communicating Identity and Identification in and Around Organizations Communicating Work-Life Issues: Policies, Practices, and Opportunities Communication, Organizing, & Social Movements Conceptual Foundations : Theory Debate, Contested Histories, Generative Struggles Critical Theory and Postmodernism Diverse Voices, Alternative Rationalities and (the) Spaces In-Between : Decolonizing Organizational Communication Diverse Voices, Alternative Rationalities and (the) Spaces In-Between: Decolonizing Organizational Communication and Other Adventures Embedded Teams Engaged Scholarship and Democracy Feminist Organizational Communication Theory Field Research in Organizational Communication Globalization and Social Justice Organizations Incivility, Destructive Workplace Behavior, & Bullying Information & Communication Technologies in Organizations Institutional Theory: A Fertile Field for Organizational Communication Introduction Section I: Theories of Organizational Communication Introduction Section II: Research Methods in Organizational Communication Studies Introduction Section III: Communication & the Postbureaucratic organization Introduction Section IV: Managing Organizational Knowledge, Meaning & Change Introduction Section V: Organizations, Stakeholders, & Conflict Introduction Section VI: Examining the Organization-Society Relationship Knowledge & Knowing in Organizational Communication Leadership Communication Mixed Methods: When More Really is More Organizational Change and Innovation Organizational Communication, Ethics, and Responsibility Organizational Culture: Creating Meaning and Influence Organizational Discourse Analysis Organizational Networks Organizing and Difference Organizing Ethnography and Qualitative Approaches Power & Resistance in Organizational Communication Socialization and Assimilation: Theories, Processes, and Outcomes Structuration Theory Systems Theory Organizational Emotions and Compassion at Work Workplace Relationships The Future of Organizational Communication "Organizational communication as a field of study has grown tremendously over the past thirty years. This growth is characterized by the development and application of communication perspectives to research on complex organizations in rapidly changing environments. Completely re-conceptualized, The Sage Handbook of Organizational Communication, Third Edition, is a landmark volume that weaves together the various threads of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship. This edition captures both the changing nature of the field, with its explosion of theoretical perspectives and research agendas, and the transformations that have occurred in organizational life with the emergence of new forms of work, globalization processes, and changing organizational forms. Exploring organizations as complex and dynamic, the Handbook brings a communication lens to bear on multiple organizing processes."-- Résumé de l'éditeur Organizational communication as a discipline has grown tremendously over the latter part of the 20th century, but accompanying that growth has been a struggle to establish a clear identity for the field. The ongoing evolution of complex organizations in an equally complex global environment has scholars continuing to define and redefine the focus, the boundaries and the future of the field. The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication, completely reconceptualized for this Third Edition, is a landmark volume that weaves together the various threads of this interdisciplinary area of scholarship