Table of Contents

Organizational Communication - Phillip K Tompkins and Maryanne Wanca-Thibault
Prelude and Prospects
PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Conceptual Foundations - Stanley Deetz
The Development of Key Constructs - Charles Conrad and Julie Hayes
Discourse Analysis in Organizations - Linda L Putnam and Gail T Fairhurst
Issues and Concerns
Quantitative Research Methods - Katherine Miller
Qualitative Research Methods - Bryan C Taylor and Nick Trujillo
PART TWO: CONTEXT: INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL ENVIRONMENTS
Organizational Environments and Organizational Information Processing - Kathleen M Sutcliffe
Organizational Identity - George Cheney and Lars Thoger Christensen
Linkages Between Internal and External Communication
Socio-Political Environments and Issues - Dayna Finet
Organizational Culture - Eric M Eisenberg and Patricia Riley
Globalizing Organization Communication - Cynthia Stohl
PART THREE: STRUCTURE: PATTERNS OF ORGANIZATIONAL INTERDEPENDENCE
Dualisms in Leadership Research - Gail T Fairhurst
Emergence of Communication Networks - Peter R Monge and Noshir S Contractor
Organizational Structures and Configurations - Robert D McPhee and Marshall S Poole
New Media and Organizational Structuring - Ronald E Rice and Urs E Gattiker
PART FOUR: PROCESS: COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR IN ORGANIZATIONS
Power and Politics - Dennis K Mumby
Wired Meetings - Janet Fulk and Lori Collins-Jarvis
Technological Mediation of Organizational Gatherings
Participation and Decision Making - Davis R Seibold and B Christine Shea
Learning in Organizations - Karl E Weick and Susan J Ashford
Organizational Entry, Assimilation and Exit - Fredric M Jablin
Communication Competence - Fredric M Jablin and Patricia Sias

About the Author

Linda L. Putnam is a Research Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her current research interests include discourse analysis in organizations, negotiation and organizational conflict, and gender.  She is the co-editor of twelve books, including The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Communication (2014), Building Theories of Organization: The Constitutive Role of Communication (2009) and the author/co-author of over 180 journal articles and book chapters. She is a Distinguished Scholar of the National Communication Association, a Fellow of the International Communication Association, and a recipient of the Distinguished Service Award from the Academy of Management.