The Work of Communication
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-93015-5 (ISBN)
Rather than suggesting that there exists a canonically "correct" route communicative analyses must follow, The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism explores the value of transcending longstanding divides between symbolic and material factors in studies of working and organizing. The recognition of dramatic shifts in technological, economic, and political forces, along with deep interconnections among the myriad of factors shaping working and organizing, sows doubts about whether organization studies is up to the vital task of addressing the social problems capitalism now creates. Kuhn, Ashcraft, and Cooren argue that novel insights into those social problems are possible if we tell different stories about working and organizing. To aid authors of those stories, they develop a set of conceptual resources that they capture under the mantle of communicative relationality. These resources allow analysts to profit from burgeoning interest in notions such as sociomateriality, posthumanism, performativity, and affect. It goes on to illustrate the benefits that investigations of work and organization can realize from communicative relationality by presenting case studies that analyze (a) the becoming of an idea, from its inception to solidification, (b) the emergence of what is taken to be the "the product" in high-tech startup entrepreneurship, and (c) the branding of work (in this case, academic writing and commercial aviation) through affective economies. Taken together, the book portrays "the work of communication" as simultaneously about how work in the "new economy" revolves around communicative practice and about how communication serves as a mode of explanation with the potential to cultivate novel stories about working and organizing.
Aimed at academics, researchers, and policy makers, this book’s goal is to make tangible the contributions of communication for thinking about contemporary social and organizational problems.
Timothy Kuhn is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. Karen Lee Ashcraft is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder, USA. François Cooren is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada.
1. Encountering Working and Organizing Under Contemporary Capitalism, 2. Relationality: Cultivating Novelty in Explorations of Working and Organizing, 3. Communicative Relationality, 4. Creativity and Relationality: Following the Becoming of an Idea, 5. Speculative Value: Articulating and Materializing the "Product" in High-Tech Startup Entrepreneurship, 6. Branding Work: Occupational Identity as Affective Economy (Aka The Glass Slipper, Take Two), 7. Conclusion: The Value(s) of Communicative Relationality
Erscheinungsdatum | 24.05.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society |
Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Gewicht | 476 g |
Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft |
Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Mikrosoziologie | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Planung / Organisation | |
ISBN-10 | 1-138-93015-6 / 1138930156 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-138-93015-5 / 9781138930155 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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