Perspectives on Organizational Communication: Finding Common Ground

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.

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.