While many organizational communication texts address internal communication processes, few consider how companies communicate with stakeholders. Likewise, texts concentrating on PR or advertising consider external communication, but fail to focus on internal communication. Combining both views, the text explains how a whole organization operates.

Contents: Preface. Managing Communication in Companies: An Enactment Point of View. Coordination Through Meaningful Expectations. Narrative, Enactment, and Organizational Discourse. Information: Uncertainty Reduction, System, and Satisfaction. Managing as Symbolic Action: Enacting Interpretations in Organizational Settings. Companies as Negotiated Enactment of Stakeholder Interests. Interpersonal Contacts: Enacting with Boss and Others. Networks: Many People Speaking with a Single Voice. Markets, Images, Issues, and External Stakeholders. External Communication with Public Policy Stakeholders.