The Situated Organization

, by James R. Taylor; Elizabeth J. Van Every

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ISBN: 9780203848074 | 0203848071
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Copyright: 9/13/2010

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The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication, emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices. Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach, it focuses not only on how an organization's members understand the purposes of the organization through communication, but also on how they realize and recognize the organization itself as they work within it.

Prologue: The Puzzle of Organization
Theory
The Premise of Organization as Thirdness
Preliminary Remarks: Connecting to Weick's View of Enactment
What is "Thirdness"?
Adding in Communication
The Explanatory Challenge We Now Address
Toward an Explanation
Organization as a Thirdness: Establishing its Agency and its Authority
The Authoring of Organization
A Concluding Note
Suggested Supplementary Readings
The Frame Game, And How Communication Establishes and Distributes Organizational Authority
Games: Situated and Not Situated
Von Neumann's theory of games
Situation and why it is important
Pragmatism in Dewey's interpretation
Focus and frames
Goffman's Interpretation of Game Theory
The information game and thirdness
Bateson and Meta-Communication
Wittgenstein's Concept of a Game-a "Language Game"
Mapping the Organization, Communicatively Speaking
Maps and organization
Playing the Frame Game: Or How to Authorize the "Map"
Doing Field Research in an Imbricated Organization
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Language as Both Meaning and Action
Cybernetics, Information Theory and Noam Chomsky's Linguistics
Wittgenstein Again
John Austin and ¿Speech Acts¿
Modality
Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis
Labov and Fanshel: Language and Thirdness
M. A. K. Halliday: A Social Semiotic View of Reflexivity
Conclusion
Suggested Supplementary Readings
Research
Text as the Constitutive Basis of Organization
The text in the conversation
"Espacer l'organisation: trajectoires d'un projet de diffusion de la science et de la technologie au Chili"
Down-linking: Building a Local Program by Enlisting Scientists
Up-linking: The Other Dimension of Organizational Coherence
Act II: in Santiago
Summary of Analysis
Vasquez' Singular View of Organization
Conclusion
Suggested Supplementary Readings
The Accounts of a Business-Or Perhaps Rather the Business of Accounting?
"Les activités de production de l'information budgetaire: Communications organisationnelles et régulations, le cas d'une entreprise de BTP"
The Organizational Context of Fauré's Research
The Performative Dimension of an ERP-type System
Updating the Budget: The Organization in the Conversation
Selecting a Communicative Event for Analysis
Analysis
Imbrication Reexamined: The Role of the Third Party
A Word on the Limitations of Formal Accounting
Text as the basis of organization
Suggested Supplementary Reading
Playing On the Game while Playing In the Game-Frames, Identities and the "Fall Plan"
How to constitute the organization in a text
Senem Güney's Study: "An Ethnographic Case Study of 'Building the Box'"
The "Fall Plan": Text versus context
The "NuevoHyp Episode": Partners? Or Competitors?
Conclusion
Suggested Supplementary Readings
The Organization as Text
Sandrine Virgili's Study: "La construction mutuelle de la technologie et de l'organisation en phase de développement: Une perspective communicationnelle appliquée à l'étude d'un ERP"
The Research Site: "Labopharma"
The Conversation in the Text, and the Text in the Conversation
Conversation # 1 Different "Maps"
Conversation #2:"Telepresence"
Conclusion
Suggested Supplementary Readings
The "Western," 21^st Century Version-Mapping the Boundaries Through Texts
"Communicating in the Field: The Role of Boundary Objects in a Collaborative Stakeholder Initiative"
Heron Lake Watershed Synergy Group (HLWSG)
The Fall Meetings, 2005
Conclusion
Suggested Supplementary Reading
Synthesis
The Organization as Thirdness, or How to Do Organizational Communication Research
Theorizing communication
On Being an Organizational Communication Researcher
Toward a Research Strategy
What is Organizational Communication Research?
Suggested Supplementary Reading
Bibliography
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