Description
Book SynopsisThis book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization/disorganization, offering a conceptual and methodological toolbox for studying dis/organization as communication.
Increasingly, scholars acknowledge that communication is constitutive of organization; because meaning is always indeterminate, communication also (and simultaneously) generates disorganization.
The book synthesizes the major theoretical trends and empirical studies in communication that engage with dis/organization. Drawing on dialectics, relational ontologies, critical theory, systems theory, and affect thinking, the first part of the book offers communicational explanations of how dis/organization unfolds. The second part of the book grounds this theoretical reflection, providing empirical studies that mobilize diverse methodological and analytical framewo
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I
Communicational Explanations of Dis/Organization
1 Constituting Order and Disorder: Embracing Tensions and
Contradictions
Linda L. Putnam
2 Communication as Dis/Organization: How to Analyze
Tensions from a Relational Perspective
François Cooren and Pascale Caïdor
3 The Queen Bee Outlives Her Own Children: A Luhmannian
Perspective on Project-Based Organizations (PBOs)
Michael Grothe-Hammer and Dennis Schoeneborn
4 Rethinking Order and Disorder: Accounting for
Disequilibrium in Knotted Systems of Paradoxical Tensions
Gail T. Fairhurst and Mathew L. Sheep
5 Feeling Things, Making Waste: Hoarding and the
Dis/Organization of Affect
Karen Lee Ashcraft
6 Communication Constitutes Capital: Branding and the
Politics of Neoliberal Dis/Organization
Dennis K. Mumby
Part II
Methodological Toolbox for Studying Dis/Organization
7 Dis/Ordering: The Use of Information and Communication
Technologies by Human Rights Civil Society Organizations
Oana Brindusa Albu
8 Disorganizing Through Texts: The Case of A.K. Rice’s
Account of Socio-technical Systems Theory
Anindita Banerjee and Brian Bloomfield
9 The Paradox of Digital Civic Participation: A
Disorganization Approach
Amanda J. Porter and Michele H. Jackson
10 Organizing from Disorder: Internet Memes as
Subversive Style
Peter Winkler and Jens Seiffert -Brockmann
11 Extreme Context as Figures of Normalcy and Emergency:
Reorganizing a Large-Scale Vaccine Campaign in the
DR Congo
Frédérik Matte
