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Author:   Consuelo Vásquez ,  Timothy Kuhn
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.566kg
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9781138588387

ISBN 10:   1138588385
Pages:   302
Publication Date:   18 March 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I Communicational Explanations of Dis/Organization 1 Constituting Order and Disorder: Embracing Tensions and Contradictions Linda L. Putnam 2 Communication as Dis/Organization: How to Analyze Tensions from a Relational Perspective François Cooren and Pascale Caïdor 3 The Queen Bee Outlives Her Own Children: A Luhmannian Perspective on Project-Based Organizations (PBOs) Michael Grothe-Hammer and Dennis Schoeneborn 4 Rethinking Order and Disorder: Accounting for Disequilibrium in Knotted Systems of Paradoxical Tensions Gail T. Fairhurst and Mathew L. Sheep 5 Feeling Things, Making Waste: Hoarding and the Dis/Organization of Affect Karen Lee Ashcraft 6 Communication Constitutes Capital: Branding and the Politics of Neoliberal Dis/Organization Dennis K. Mumby Part II Methodological Toolbox for Studying Dis/Organization 7 Dis/Ordering: The Use of Information and Communication Technologies by Human Rights Civil Society Organizations Oana Brindusa Albu 8 Disorganizing Through Texts: The Case of A.K. Rice’s Account of Socio-technical Systems Theory Anindita Banerjee and Brian Bloomfield 9 The Paradox of Digital Civic Participation: A Disorganization Approach Amanda J. Porter and Michele H. Jackson 10 Organizing from Disorder: Internet Memes as Subversive Style Peter Winkler and Jens Seiffert -Brockmann 11 Extreme Context as Figures of Normalcy and Emergency: Reorganizing a Large-Scale Vaccine Campaign in the DR Congo Frédérik Matte

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Consuelo Vásquez is an Associate Professor in the Département de Communication Sociale et Publique at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada. Her research interests include ethnography, project organizing, volunteering and the communicative constitution of organizations. Her work appears in such venues as Communication Theory, Human Relations and Qualitative Research in Organizational and Management. Timothy R. Kuhn is Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. His research addresses the constitution of authority and agency in organizational action, with particular attention to how knowledge, identities, and conceptions of value emerge in sociomaterial, power-laden communication practices. His research has been published in Organization Studies, Academy of Management Review, Academy of Management Annals, Organization, Management Communication Quarterly, and Communication Monographs, among others.

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