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Strategic Ambiguities : Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity

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  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2006-12-07
  • Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc

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"This collection of essays is insightful, thought-provoking, and forward-looking. Eric Eisenberg takes on challenging positions, writes in a cogent and accessible manner, and always stimulates new scholarship. This work will be an important teaching tool, not just for the innovative content of the writing, but also for the historical narrative of organizational communication embedded in it." -Steve May, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill In Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity , Eric Eisenberg, an internationally recognized leader in the theory and practice of organizational communication, collects and reflects upon more than two decades of his writing. Strategic Ambiguities is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent, life-affirming worldview. Strategic Ambiguities : Explores the role of language and communication in the construction of social structures and personal identities. Provides a useful intellectual and historical context for students through framing chapters and head notes developed especially for this volume. Chronicles the historical development of an important argument about communicating and organizing through the sustained focus on a single theorist. Intended Audience : This text is designed for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses such as Organizational Communication, Communication Theory, and Organizational Behavior in the fields of Communication, Business & Management, and Educational Leadership.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Laying Down a Path in Walking
Embracing Ambiguity
Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communication
Meaning and Interpretation in Organizations
Conflict at Disneyland: A Root-Metaphor Analysis
Reconsidering Openness in Organizational Communication
Transcendence and Transformation
Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing
Miscommunication in Organizations
Dialogue as Democratic Discourse
A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education
From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997
Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost
Transforming Organizations Through Communication
Flirting With Meaning
A New Communication Aesthetic
The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship
Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity
Creating Clearings for Communication
Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of ContingencyConclusion
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