This volume explores communication in organizations and advances the theory that an organization is both a pragmatic and cognitive construction. It is written for scholars in organizational communication, org studies, management, and related fields.

Elizabeth J. Van Every, James R. Taylor

Contents: Preface. Part I: Theory of Communication. Organizational Communication: A New Look. Communication as Coorientation. How the A Priori Forms of Text Reveal the Organization. Language as Technology and Agent. Part II: Theory of Organization. Reinterpreting Organizational Literature. From Symbol Processing to Subsymbolic Socially Distributed Cognition. Conversation Transformed: Organization. Reenacting Enactment. Why "In"? of Maps, Territories, and Governance.