Cynthia Hardy is a Professor in the Faculty of Management, McGill University. Her publications include Strategies for Retrenchment and Turnaround: The Politics of Survival (De Gruyter, 1990) and Managing Organizational Closure (Gower, 1985). 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.

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• VOLUME ONE: THEORETICAL DEVELOPMENTSAntecedentsThe Language of Power and the Power of Language - Stewart R. CleggModernism, Post Modernism and Organizational Analysis 2: The Contribution of Michel Foucault - Gibson BurrellModernism, Postmodernism and Organizational Analysis: An Introduction - Robert Cooper and Gibson BurrellDisciplinary Power in the Modern Corporation - Stanley DeetzScene SettingOrganizational Discourse - Dennis K. Mumby and Robin P. ClairVarieties of Discourse: On the Study of Organizations through Discourse Analysis - Mats Alvesson and Dan KarremanDiscourse Analysis in Organizations: Issues and Concerns - Linda L. Putnam and Gail T. FairhurstTheoretical ApproachesCorporate Strategy, Organizations, and Subjectivity: A Critique - David Knights and Glenn MorganTextual Agency: How Texts Do Things in Organizational Settings - Francois CoorenDiscourse and Institutions - Nelson Phillips, Thomas B. Lawrence and Cynthia HardyFinding the Organization in the Communication: Discourse as Action and Sense-making - James R. Taylor and Daniel RabichaudCoordination as Energy-in-Conversation - Ryan W. Quinn and Jane E. DuttonOn the Multi-modality, Materiality and Contingency of Organizational Discourse - Rick IedemaCritiques/DebatesDiscourse Analysis as Organizational Analysis - Robert ChiaOrganizational Discourse Analysis: Avoiding the Determinism-Voluntarism Trap - Charles ConradGetting Real about Organizations Discourse - Mike ReedVOLUME TWO: METHODSOverviews of Studying DiscourseDiscourse Analysis as a Way of Analysing Naturally Occurring Talk - Jonathan PotterAgainst Discursive Imperialism, Empiricism and Constructionism: Thirty-Two Problems with Discourse Analysis - Ian Parker and Erica BurmanDoing Research in Organizational Discourse: The Importance of Researcher Context - Craig Prichard, Deborah Jones and Ralph StableinTo Text or Context? Endotextual, Extotextual, and Multi-textual Approaches to Narrative and Discursive Organizational Studies - David Barry. Brigid Carroll and Hans HansenNarrative and StoriesNarratives of Individual and Organizational Identities - Barbara Czarniawska-JoergesStories of the Storytelling Organization: A Postmodern analysis of Disney as ′Tamara-Land′ - David M. BojeCritical Discourse Analysis and DeconstructionCritical Discourse Analysis - Norman Fairclough and Ruth WodakPrinciples of Critical Discourse Analysis - Teun A. van DijkPower and Siscourse in Organization Studies: Absence and the Dialectic of Control - Dennis K. Mumby and Cynthia StohlIrony, Rhetoric and MetaphorsIsn′t It Ironic; Using Irony to Explore the Contradictions of Organizational Life - Angela TretheweyThe Discourse of the Middle Ground: Citizen Shell Commits to Sustainable Development - Sharon M. LiveseyMetaphor and Analogical Reasoning in Organization Theory - Cliff Oswick, Tom Keenoy and David GrantDifferent Types of Texts: Video, Cartoons, Conversations, WebsitesWhen Supervising Physicians See Patients: Strategies Used in Difficult Situations - Anita Pomerantz, B.J. Fehr and Jack EndeNo Joking Matter: Discursive Struggle in the Canadian Refugee System - Cynthia Hardy and Nelson PhillipsMy Job Sucks: Examining Counterinstitutional Web Sites as Locations for Organizational Member Voice, Dissent and Resistance - Loril M. Gossett and Julian KilkerReflexivityReflexive Inquiry in Organizational research: Questions and Possibilities - Ann L. CunliffeManagement Consultant Talk: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of Normalizing Discourse and Resistance - Susan Merilainen, Janne Tienari, Robyn Thomas and Annette DaviesVOLUME THREE: APPLICATIONS AND CONTEXTSIdentity and GenderThe ′Feminine Advantage′: A Discursive Analysis of the Invisibility of Older Women Workers - Susan AinsworthHealth on the Line: Identity and Disciplinary Control in Employee Occupational Health and Safety Discourse - Heather M. ZollerThe Leader-Member Exchange Patterns of Women Leaders in Industry: A Discourse Analysis - Fail T. FairhurstThe Bureaucratization, Commodification and Privatization of Sexual Harrassment through Institutional Discourse: A Study of the Big Ten Universities - Robin P. ClairEmotion and HumourBecoming a Character for Commerce: Emotion Labour, Self-Subordination and Discursive Construction of Identity in a Total Instituion - Sarah J. Tracy′Engineering Humour′: Masculinity, Joking and Conflict in Shop-Floor Relations - David L. CollinsonParticipation and ResistanceChange, Change or be Exchanged: The Discourse of Participation and the Manufacture of Identity - Gill Musson and Joanne DuberleyDialectical Tensions and Rhetorical Tropes in Negotiations - Linda L. PutnamThe Ambivalent Dynamics of Secretarial ′Bitching′: Control, Resistance and the Construction of Identity - Patty Sotirin and Heidi GottfriedTheorizing the Micro-politics of Resistance: New Public Management and Managerial Identities in the UK Public Services - Robyn Thomas and Annette DaviesInstitutional ChangeDiscourse and Deinstitutionalization: The Decline of DDT - Steve Maguire and Cynthia HardyOrganizational ChangeChange in Organizational Culture: The Use of Linguistic Methods in a Corporate Acquisition - David T. BastienOrganizational Change as Discourse: Communicative Actions and Deep Structures in the Context of Information Technology Implementation - Loizos Heracleous and Michael BarrettIdeological Positioning in Organizational Change: The Dialectic of Control in a Merging Organization - Lisa A. Howard and Patricia GeistDiscourse as a Strategic Resource - Cynthia Hardy, Ian Palmer and Nelson Phillips