Exploring Organizational Communication (Micro) History Through Network Connections

In light of the 100th anniversary of the National Communication Association, the following essay offers an initial look at the communication subdiscipline of organizational communication and its development over the past seven-plus decades. As part of this review, we advocate the use of network methods as a microhistory analytic tool to explore the vast number of connections, both between people and research interests, generated as the discipline developed from its humble beginnings. This work represents a small sample of the greater Organizational Communication Genealogy Project. This larger effort seeks to create a detailed review of the discipline as it explores the relationships between advisors and advisees, the development of dissertation and current research topics, the collaborative network of coauthorship, and the contributions of individual scholars through the analysis of interview data, narratives, and historical documents

You Do Not Want to Go to the Island: A Rhetorical Panorama of The Island

The first glance at the tropical haven emerging from the luminous teal waters arouses an awe of such a paradise. The inhabitants of a facility in the Michael Bay film, The Island, daily abide in that awe, assured in their eminent continuance succeeding a lethal global contamination. Their perception, however, is limited. The inhabitants are components of a rhetorical vision and their view of the Island is less that panoramic. Through a rare analysis of film, the device of Fantasy Theme Analysis, devised by Ernest Bormann, interfaced with a notion of vampiring, an unobstructed cyclorama of the Island is made available, indeed, providentially for the inhabitants in the film as well as the real world American society

Changes in Conflict Framing in the News Coverage of an Environmental Conflict

This article examines the role of media and conflict framing in four major turning points of an environmental controversy. In particular, it focuses on the media\u27s role in defining the dispute and altering the naming and blaming among constituents during these turning points. It also examines how these changes relate to escalation and de-escalation of the conflict

The misguided reaction: reconsidering intelligence flow before 11 September 2001

This research examines the story of 11 September 2001 from an organizational communication perspective. Discourse after the event pointed to "communication difficulties" as a scapegoat for the intelligence community's failure. These analyses are misguided. Therefore, I examine our government's answer to communication difficulties--more bureaucracy. The many communication hindrances associated with bureaucracy are discussed as reasons to rethink our government's reaction. Finally, further research and recommendations are discussed

OrganiZational communication and organiSational communication: Binaries and the fragments of a field

In this paper, I employ personal narrative to help cast light on connections and tensions between organiZational communication research, as produced in the United States, and organiSational communication research, as produced in Aotearoa New Zealand. I address the issue by highlighting three sets of differences between these bodies of research: canonical, institutional and theoretical. I then unpack how these differences are apparent in my own university before sketching out three ways in which we might productively use such tensions to achieve radical engagement, and critique disciplinary others, identities, and locations

OrganiZational communication and organiSational communication: Binaries and the fragments of a field

In this paper, I employ personal narrative to help cast light on connections and tensions between organiZational communication research, as produced in the United States, and organiSational communication research, as produced in Aotearoa New Zealand. I address the issue by highlighting three sets of differences between these bodies of research: canonical, institutional and theoretical. I then unpack how these differences are apparent in my own university before sketching out three ways in which we might productively use such tensions to achieve radical engagement, and critique disciplinary others, identities, and locations

From Practice to Theory to Practice: A Brief Retrospective on the Transformative Mediation Model

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Negotiating in the Shadows of Organizations: Gender, Negotiation, and Change

Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio

Les théories de la gouvernance : Pluralité de discours et enjeux éthiques

Certes, le travail sur la gouvernance dans le chantier des questions environnementales semble bien amorcé et il ne peut que prendre de l’ampleur dans les années à venir. Il est peut-être encore tôt pour produire une typologie des théories de la gouvernance, ou une conceptualisation trop serrée. Il semble plus opportun pour le moment de repérer les principaux usages que nous rencontrons effectivement des recours à la gouvernance. Nous pourrons ensuite voir comment ce vocable peut fonctionner dans une pluralité de discours, et comment il peut véhiculer des significations assez diverses. Il ne s’agira donc pas d’enrichir un Dictionnaire de la gouvernance ou de mettre un terme aux études de terrain, alors qu’elles débutent! Au contraire, il nous faut réfléchir d’emblée et davantage en termes des usages que nous faisons de nos concepts, et pas seulement rechercher des modèles théoriques en quelque sorte purs qui ne rencontreront presque aucun usage dans la pratique. Il faut s’interroger sur le sens que les acteurs accordent à ces recours et sur ce qu’ils vont y chercher. Il faut aussi nous demander, en plus de la question des effets de sens qui sont produits par l’usage de la gouvernance, quels sont les enjeux éthiques sous-jacents qui sont soulevés par de tels usages.Reflexion on the governance topic and the different uses of that term are going forward in the field of environmental issues and practices. Since that topic is very popular, we suppose it can only grow in the upcoming years. Considering it might be too soon to produce at this time a typology of governance theories or a too strict conceptualisation of the notion, we aim here instead at identifying the different ways in which this term is used in a plurality of discourses and how it probably goes with a plurality of meanings. We are at the starting point of field studies on governance practices; it seems more interesting now to focus on how the concept actually works in practice, instead of trying to build a unifying model from the theoretical point of view. A purely theoretical endeavour would probably miss the various ways by which actors find and give meaning to the uses of the governance concept. We also would like to reflect on the effects produced by uses of governance and what are the ethical issues that are raised by these uses