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Employs the dual perspectives of organizational communication & language and social interaction (LSI) to analyze a series of board meetings in the film, Corporation: After Mr. Sam. For scholars/researchers/students in organization management, LSI, & mgmt
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Contents: Preface. F. Cooren, General Introduction. Part I: Leadership and Speakership: Which Voice Matters?F. Cooren, Introduction. J.R. Taylor, D. Robichaud, Management as Meta-Conversation: The Search for Closure. A. Pomerantz, P. Denvir, Enacting the Institutional Role of Chairperson in Upper-Management Meetings: The Interactional Realization of Provisional Authority. G.T. Fairhurst, Liberating Leadership in Corporation After Mr. Sam: A Response. Part II: Organizing and Emotional Display: Contradictions and Paradoxes.F. Cooren, Introduction. K. Tracy, Feeling-Limned Talk: Conduct Ideals in the Steinberg Succession Meeting. L.L. Putnam, Contradictions in the Meta-Talk About Feelings in "After Mr. Sam." K.L. Fitch, M. Foley, The Persuasive Nature of Emotion and the Cultural Nature of Feelings in Organizations. Part III: Strategies of Decision Making: Competencies and Coherences.F. Cooren, Introduction. R.D. McPhee, S. Corman, J. Iverson, "We Ought to Have...Gumption:" A CRA Analysis of an Excerpt From the Videotape "After Mr. Sam." R.E. Sanders, The Effect of Interactional Competence on Group Problem-Solving. C. Stohl, Bringing the Outside In: A Contextual Analysis. Part IV: Can We Study Interactions in Documentaries? Ways of Talking, Closure, and Data.F. Cooren, Brief Introduction. G. Philipsen, J. Leighter, Sam Sternberg's Use of "Tell" in After Mr. Sam.S. Deetz, R. Heath, J. MacDonald, On Talking to Not Make Decisions: A Critical Analysis of Organizational Talk. D.L. Wieder, H. Mau, C. Nicholas, Documentaries Are Not Data. C. Oswick, Closing Words (and Opening Discussions?): An Afterword on After Mr. Sam. Appendices.
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Francois Cooren
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Employs the dual perspectives of organizational communication & language and social interaction (LSI) to analyze a series of board meetings in the film, Corporation: After Mr. Sam. For scholars, researchers, or students in organization management.
