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Democracy in an Age of Corporate Colonization
According to Deetz, our obsolete understanding of communication processes and power relations prevents us from seeing the corporate domination of public decision making. For most people issues of democracy, representation, freedom of speech, and censorship pertain to the State and its relationship to individuals and groups, and are linked to occasional political processes rather than everyday life decisions. This work reclaims the politics of personal identity and experience within the work environment as a first step to a democratic form of public decision-making appropriate to the modern context.
Doing Critical Management Research
Providing a detailed discussion of the practice of doing critical research in organizations, utilizing both qualitative research processes and critical theories of organizations, this textbook will be essential for all those involved in interpreting and researching contemporary institutions and organizations. This volume gives an authoritative and insightful framework for navigating critical theories and methods across the social sciences, but in particular in relation to the study of corporate organizations.
Leading Organizations Through Transition
This book addresses the role of communication in cultural change efforts within organizations, especially during periods of transition, mergers, technological innovations and globalization.
Doing Critical Research
This title builds on the success of Doing Critical Management Research which has proven to be a seminal text in the 20 years since publication. In 2020, Alvesson and Deetz have broadened their focus and updated the original book to offer relevance to critical research across all of the social sciences. In reflecting contemporary theoretical and methodological turns over the past few decades, it includes coverage of key contemporary topics such as race, gender, postmodernism and intersectionality. With examples throughout, the authors provide an authoritative and insightful framework for navigating critical theories and methods and sets out a new agenda for critical research undertaken today.
The SAGE Handbook 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.
Communication Yearbook
This annual review of current research in communication - published in cooperation with the International Communication Association - has come to be regarded as essential reading in the field. Communication Yearbook 15 is divided into four sections each partially reflecting and defining a significant recent issue of concern. The first section concentrates on mass media entertainment, audience mediation and politics. The second looks at the production of media messages and the influence these messages have on specific audiences. Interpersonal interaction is the subject of the last two sections - in section three as it takes place within a social, historical context - in section four as it relates to intrapersonal communication.
Dialogue
Readers of Dialogue will be able to frame different influential conceptions of dialogue, establish the concepts' history in communication studies, and trace both common and unique threads that connect different theorists. This volume is recommended for graduate and advanced undergraduate courses in Communication Theory, Interpersonal Communication, and Organizational Communication
Transforming Communication, Transforming Business
Despite Recent Positive Reforms, Professor Deetz demonstrates that continuing political and economic changes necessitate a more radical rethinking of the practices of management and decision making in major corporations. Increasingly corporations are becoming understood as complex public/political sites of decision making. This includes both a rise in concern with diversity of the work force and a perceived right of competitive groups to participate in decision making. These concerns converge in the development of new stakeholder models of corporate decision making. Stakeholder models challenge the more typical views of organizations by demonstrating multiple forms of ownership and advantage...
