Abstract Information systems (IS) use, the dominant theoretical paradigm for explaining how
users apply IS artifacts toward goal attainment, gives primacy to human agency in the user …

This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we
seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American …

What happens when two or more people communicate or interact with each other? This is
the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a somewhat …

One force pulls researchers toward individual applications and separate variations of certain
general, often vague ideas. The other force pulls researchers toward learning from each …

In this article, I first propose to reinterpret call for a dialogue between communication
perspectives as a formulation of design specs to which any constitutive model of …

H ow does an organization come into being? How does it continue, or why does it cease to
exist? In other words, what is an organization? How does it become an organization and …

Despite increasing interest in the discursive aspects of strategy, few studies have examined
strategy texts and their power effects. We draw from Critical Discourse Analysis to better …

The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication,
emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication …

This book is a collection about cultural-historical activity theory as it has been developed
and applied by Yrjö Engeström. The work of Engeström is both rooted in the legacy of …

The complex distribution and negotiation of authority in real time is a key issue for today's
organizations. The authors investigate how the negotiations that sustain authority at work …