What is “organizational communication”? Communication as a dialogic of text and conversation

Constructing Policy Knowledge: Contradictions, Communication, and Knowledge Frames

“…Scholars have noted that these theories have similar (although not identical) ontological assumptions, while their epistemological commitments differ somewhat (Boer, 2005;Foot & Groleau, 2009;Taylor, 1999). Structuration theory, as articulated by Anthony Giddens (1979Giddens ( , 1984, constitutes a broad social theory that focuses on connections between structure and action as explanatory mechanisms of social processes.…”

Dialogue: Life and Death of the Organization

“…) Further, Myerson (1994 ) draws our attention to "double arguability," essentially a distinction between the interactions of the interlocutors in a dialogue and the specific issue at stake. Ultimately we must consider the relationship between what is said, the way in which it is said, and the form of relationship (Taylor, 1999). The present analysis has focused exclusively on the former domain, while neglecting potentially significant issues of dialogic content.…”

How CFO’s communicate financial information - A pedagogical task in theory and practice

“…Together, each member of the group contributes to "interpret the language of numbers into understandable information" (Abdullah Zaid & Abraham, 1994). This process thus dealswith the meaning rather than the numbers to a very large extent (Taylor, 1999;Taylor et al, 1996), which the next proposition is about.…”

“…As the language is an important part of communication in a social context it also becomes an interesting dimension to study (Taylor, 1999). Communication can then be understood in part as a set of rules or procedures that supports communication and in part as different stories and narratives that create the organization's identity (Browning, 1992).…”