New Approaches to Organizational Communication

Branislav Kovacic is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Hartford.

"This book represents a clearly-focused vision about where the field of organizational communication is going. I know of no collection of essays that provides the depth, breadth, and intellectual clarity that this book does." — Anne M. Nicotera, Howard University"The range of topics covered is broad and reflects important concerns in current organizational communication research. It defines key directions in which future organizational communication research should go. It considerably expands the range of topics covered in organizational communication. This will be quite useful to researchers and graduate students alike. I know of no volume with similar coverage or range. The scholarship is sound and the works cited are current and important. The book introduces readers to whole new domains of literature that are quite relevant to organizational communication research." — Marshall Scott Poole, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

• Acknowledgments 1. New Perspectives on Organizational CommunicationBranislav Kovacic 2. Self-Organizing Systems Perspective in the Study of Organizational CommunicationNoshir S. Contractor 3. Supremacy of Human Relationships: A Japanese Organizational ModelYanan Yu 4. High-Speed Management as a Theoretic Principle for Yielding Significant Organizational Communication BehaviorsSarah S. King and Donald P. Cushman 4. Information Technology and the Prospects for Organizational TransformationAugust T. Horvath and Janet Fulk 6. Group Decision Support Systems (GDSS): Review, Taxonomy, and Research AgendaDavid R. Seibold, Mark A. Heller, and Noshir S. Contractor 7. Interest Advocacy and the Transformation in Organizational CommunicationDayna Finet 8. Critical and Nonfoundational Analyses: Are They Contradictory or Complementary?Michael Huspek 9. Representational Practices and the Political Analysis of Corporations: Building a Communication Perspective in Organizational StudiesStanley A. Deetz 10. Feminist Philosophy and the Transformation of Organizational CommunicationElizabeth J. Natalle, Michael J. Papa, and Elizabeth E. Graham 11. AfterwordMarshall Scott Poole Contributors Index