Discourse Perspectives in Organizational Communication brings together researchers from the social sciences and humanities to look at discourse and how it shapes organizations and their social actors. Unlike others in the field, this book assumes that language creates and constitutes reality, rather than simply mirroring or describing it. This collection illustrates the variety of organizational phenomena that might be studied and the range of epistemological and methodological approaches that might be used in discourse analysis techniques.

Introduction
Chapter 1: Four Proposals Toward an Interpretive Theory of the Process of Discursive Reality Construction
Chapter 2: Sustainable Change: A Politically Attentive Discursive Analysis of Collaborative Talk
Chapter 3: Asian Business Discourse(s)
Chapter 4: "Harmonious Disagreement" in Japanese Business Discourse
Chapter 5: Problematizing Political Space Through Discursive Analysis: The Case of the United States Cost Guard and the Live Fire Zones of the Great Lakes
Chapter 6: The Rhetorical Legitimation of Organizational Exploration and Exploration Initiatives
Chapter 7: Introducing British and Spanish Companies to Investors: Building the Corporate Image through the Chairman's Statement
Chapter 8: Benchmarking Organizational Identity: How Who "We" Are Emerges in Team Dialogue
Chapter 9: Narratives of Diversity in the Corporate Boardroom: What Corporate Insiders Say About Why Diversity Matters
Chapter 10: Going Green: How Organizations Use Narrative to Build Commitment to Environmental Values
Conclusion
Index
About the Contributors

Jolanta Aritz is associate professor of clinical management communication at the Center for Management Communication, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California. Robyn C. Walker is assistant professor of clinical management communication at the Center for Management Communication, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California