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Informationen zum Autor Eric M. Eisenberg (Ph.D. & M.A., Michigan State University; B.A., Rutgers University) is co-author of the best-selling introductory organizational communication textbook (Eisenberg/Goodall, Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Restraint, 4/e , Bedford/St. Martin’s ©2005) and is considered one of the top organizational communication scholars and researchers in the field. A recipient of numerous grants and academic and teaching awards, Eisenberg also serves as associate editor to the following journals: Communication Monographs ; Communication Research ; Management Communication Quarterly ; Journal of Applied Communication Research . Klappentext Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context. Zusammenfassung A journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. It collects and reflects on over two decades of author's writing to provide important personal! historical! and theoretical context. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Laying Down a Path in Walking PART I. EMBRACING AMBIGUITY 1. Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communication 2. Meaning and Interpretation in Organizations 3. Conflict at Disneyland: A Root-Metaphor Analysis 4. Reconsidering Openness in Organizational Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg and Marsha G. Witten PART II. TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATION 5. Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing 6. Miscommunication in Organizations - Eric M. Eisenberg and Steven R. Phillips 7. Dialogue as Democratic Discourse 8. A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education 9. From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997 10. Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost 11.Transforming Organizations Through Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg, Linda Andrews, Alexandra Murphy, and Linda Laine-Timmerman 12. Flirting With Meaning PART III. A NEW COMMUNICATION AESTHETIC 13. The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship 14. Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity 15. Creating Clearings for Communication 16. Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of Contingency Conclusion ...
