James R. Taylor is Professor Emeritus and founder of the Department of Communication at the University of Montreal. He is the author, co-author or editor of six books, including The Emergent Organization (2000).

Elizabeth J. Van Every is an historian and sociologist by training and has worked in both the public and private sectors. She has co-authored two previous books with James Taylor: The Vulnerable Fortress (1993) and The Emergent Organization (2000) as well as co-edited The Computerization of Work (2001) and Communication as Organizing (2006).

The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication, emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices. Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach, it focuses not only on how an organization's members understand the purposes of the organization through communication, but also on how they realize and recognize the organization itself as they work within it.

"A useful resource for those engaged in quantitative methods analysis in conjunction with organizations or organizational communication."
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Prologue: The Puzzle of Organization

The Premise of Organization as Thirdness

The Frame Game, And How Communication Establishes and Distributes Organizational Authority

Language as Both Meaning and Action

PART TWO: RESEARCH

Text as the Constitutive Basis of Organization

The Accounts of a Business-Or Perhaps Rather the Business of Accounting?

Playing On the Game while Playing In the Game-Frames, Identities and the "Fall Plan"

The Organization as Text

The "Western," 21st Century Version-Mapping the Boundaries Through Texts

PART THREE: SYNTHESIS

The Organization as Thirdness, or How to Do Organizational Communication Research