Perspectives on Organizational Communication: Finding Common Ground - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1572306025 ISBN 13: 9781572306028

Publisher: The Guilford Press, 2000

Synopsis

This unique volume promotes constructive dialogue among the basic methodological positions in organizational communication today. The goal is to identify theoretical moves and scholarly practices that can help people with divergent views compare or integrate their ideas instead of waging war. Essays from three distinguished scholars first discuss the concept of common ground from interpretive, post-positivist, and critical vantage points. Brief commentaries from a diverse array of colleagues then expand on key issues raised in the essays, explore creative tensions among the different perspectives, and reexamine the role of paradigms in organizational communication scholarship and scholarly discourse.

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About the Author

Steven R. Corman, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication at Arizona State University. He serves on the editorial board of Human Communication Research. His publications on communication networks, interaction processes, and computer models of communication have appeared in a number of professional journals.

Marshall Scott Poole, PhD, is Professor of Speech Communication at Texas A&M University. He has conducted research and published extensively on the topics of group and organizational communication, computer-mediated communication systems, conflict management, and organizational innovation. The coauthor or editor of four books, he has published widely in professional journals. He is currently a Senior Editor of Information Systems Research and Organization Science.

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Contents
I. Introduction
1. The Need for Common Ground, Steven R. Corman
II. Three Essays
2. Interpreting Interpretive Research: Toward Perspectivism without Relativism, George Cheney
3. Common Ground from the Post-Positivist Perspective: From "Straw Person" Argument to Collaborative Coexistence, Katherine I. Miller
4. Common Ground from the Critical Perspective: Overcoming Binary Oppositions, Dennis K. Mumby
III. Commentary
5. Commentary on Common Ground in Organizational Communication, George A. Barnett
6. On the Destiny of Acceptance Frames: Organizational Communication Discourse, Charles Conrad
7. The A Priori of the Communication Community and the Hope for Solving Real Problems, Stanley Deetz
8. The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship, Eric M. Eisenberg
9. Paradigm Skirmishes in the Review Process, Gail T. Fairhurst
10. Disciplinary Controversies and Interdisciplinary Consequences, Michele H. Jackson
11. A Case for a Different Kind of Dialogue: The After Action Review, Robert L. Krizek
12. Becoming Deeply Multiperspectival: Commentary on Finding Common Ground in Organizational Communication Research, Kathleen J. Krone
13. "Paradigm" Critique: How to See Our Task as a Common One, and How to Work on It, Robert D. McPhee
14. Challenges for the Professional Newcomer in Doing Common Ground Research, Craig R. Scott and Laurie K. Lewis
15. Potential "Sites" for Building Common Ground across Metatheoretical Perspectives on Organizational Communication, David R. Seibold and Andrew J. Flanagin
16. Pedagogy and Paradigms: The Search for Common Ground, Cynthia Stohl
17. A Common Ground, Common Grounds, or Footbridges?, James R. Taylor
18. The Shifting Common Ground: Feminism(s), Organizational Communication, and Productive Paradigmatic Tensions, Angela Trethewey
IV. Afterword
19. Reflections on Finding Common Ground, Marshall Scott Poole and Owen Hanley Lynch
References
Index

Edition details

• Publisher: The Guilford Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1572306025
• ISBN 13: 9781572306028
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 265
• Editor: Corman Steven R., Poole Marshall Scott