Communication in Organizations : Structures and Practices

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Foreword	p. 7
Interactional Practice and Organizational Structure
The Janus-Faced Power of Language in Organizations	p. 21
Talking Structure: The Shaping of Organizational Reality in Consulting Conversations	p. 47
Language and Agency in Organizations	p. 65
Dialogue Devices: Bridging between "Mode 1" and "Mode 2" Knowledge Production	p. 81
Coherence as the Regulation of Four Communicative Processes: Integration, Progression, Voice, and Contextualization	p. 103
The Rhetoric of Organizations
The Importance of the Storyline	p. 119
Rethinking Organizational Metaphors: Beyond (M)Organization Theory	p. 135
Mission Statements--Identifying Underlying Concepts. An Empirical Study of Austrian Corporate Mission Statements	p. 149
Metaphorical Self-Descriptions of Organizations	p. 165
The Communicative Construction of Organizational Cultures
Communication within Groups: How it Reveals the Nature of Organizational Culture in Hospitals	p. 185
Sociability: The Ethnotheory of Co-operation	p. 201
What's the Boss Doing? Everyday Communication of High-level Personnel	p. 219
The Discourse of all.department E-mails: A Case Study	p. 241
The Rise of Network Society and Structural Transformations in the Field of Religion	p. 261
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