Language and Communication at Work

With the growing influence of discursive and narrative perspectives on organizing, organizational scholars are focusing increasing attention on the constitutive role that language and communication play in organizational processes. This view conceptualizes language and communication as bringing organization into being in every instant and is therefore inherently sympathetic to a process perspective. However, our understanding of the role of language in unfolding organizational processes and as a part of organizational action is still limited. This volume brings together empirical and/or conceptual contributions from leading scholars in organization and communication to develop understanding of language and communication as constitutive of work, and also analyze how language and communication actually work to achieve influence in the context of organizations.
It aims to elucidate the role language, communication, and narrativity play as part of strategic and institutional work in and around organizational phenomena. In keeping with the preceding volumes in the Perspectives on Process Organization Studies series, this collection demonstrates why we need to start thinking processually and offers a range of theoretical and methodological approaches to studying these 'works in process' that we call organizations, companies, businesses, institutions, communities, associations, or NGOs

- Part I: Language and Communication in Organizations - 1: François Cooren, Eero Vaara, Ann Langley, Haridimos Tsoukas: Language and Communication at Work: Discourse, Narrativity, and Organizing: Introducing the Fourth Volume of Perspectives on Process Organization Studies - 2: James R. Taylor: Impersonating the Organization: Reflections on the Communicative Constitution of Organization - 3: Ruth Wodak: Analyzing Interaction in Meetings: Perspectives from Critical Discourse Studies and the Discourse-Historical Approach - 4: Andrea Whittle, William Housley, Alan Gilchrist, Peter Lenney and Frank Mueller,: Power, Politics and Organizational Communication: An Ethnomethodological Perspective - 5: Philippe Lorino: From Speech Acts to Act Speeches: Collective activity, a discursive process speaking the language of habits. - 6: Geneviève Musca Linda Rouleau, and Bertrand Fauré: Time, Space, and Calculation in Discursive Practices: Insights from the Crow s Flight Chronotope of the Darwin Expedition - 7: Timothy Kuhn and Nicholas R. Burk: Spatial Design as Sociomaterial Practice: A (Dis)Organizing Perspective on Communicative Constitution - 8: Florian Schulz and Chris Steyaert: Studying Talk-at-Work: An Analysis of the Discursive Processes of Management Coaching Conversations - 9: David M. Boje and Rohny Saylors: Quantum Storytelling: An Ontological Perspective on Process - Part II: Process Perspectives - 10: Maxim Ganzin, Robert P. Gephart Jr., and Roy Suddaby: Narrative and the Construction of Myths in Organizations - 11: Katharina Hohmann and Jeanne Mengis: Temporal Work in Coordination: Co-orienting Around a Fleeting Object of Concern - 12: Emmanouil Gkeredakis, Davide Nicolini, Jacky Swan: Moral Judgements as Organizational Accomplishments: Insights from a Focused Ethnography in the English Healthcare Sector - 13: Kjersti Bjørkeng, Arne Carlsen, and Carl Rhodes: Between the Saying and the Said: From Self-reflexivity to Other-vulnerability in The Research Process