Summary
Contents
Subject index
Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity is a provocative journey through the development of a new aesthetics of communication that rejects all fundamentalisms and embraces a contingent world-view. Author Eric M. Eisenberg both collects and reflects on over two decades of his writing to provide important personal, historical, and theoretical context.
Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost
Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost
This study used management scholar Joanne Martin's well-known taxonomy of organizational cultures as a tool to deconstruct the usual representations of a major university's search for a new Provost (Chief Academic Officer). Our analysis revealed that participants in the search process articulated multiple versions of what “really” happened in the search, expressed in three alternative narrative forms: integration, differentiation, and fragmentation. Different accounts were chosen for rhetorical reasons and tailored to the audience and the situation. Strategic ambiguity functioned to permit these alternate versions of reality to coexist.
Florida is a great place to study the conflict between the ideology of openness and the practical ...
- Loading...