Origins, Traditions, and Trends of Organizational Communication

The second edition of this text provides an updated overview of organizational communication, assessing the field to date and demonstrating a communicational approach to the study of organization. It is an ideal text for graduate courses in organizational communication and communication history.

Anne M. Nicotera (PhD, Ohio University) is Professor of Communication at George Mason University, USA. Her research, grounded in a constitutive perspective, focuses on intractable conflict, race and gender, and aggressive communication, with particular interest in healthcare organizations, postcolonial approaches, and anti-racism. Her research has been published in numerous communication and health-related journals, as well as in six books and numerous chapters. Her applied work focuses on designing and delivering organizational communication-based management and leadership training. She is the organizer for the biennial D.C. Health Communication (DCHC) Conference.