Organizational Communication

The field of organizational communication has mushroomed in the past three decades. Originally viewed as a spin-off from management and organizational psychology, organizational communication is now a major area of research, education, and practice.

Studies in organizational communication focus on the messages, meanings, patterns of communication, discourse, and symbols as they aid in defining the nature of organizations. In effect, organizational communication scholars study the dynamic interplay between communication processes and human organizing.

This volume assembles in one collection the major works that form the building blocks of organizational communication studies. It chronicles the development of the field through articles that were influential in setting agendas and charting the course of research. Focusing on both mainstream and innovative topics, these volumes contain major works that cross five ...

Editors' Introduction

LindaL.Putnam and KathleenJ.Krone

Research in organizational communication began in the 1940s but has mushroomed in the past three decades. Often treated as a spin-off from management and psychology, organizational communication is now a major field of its own with research and graduate studies in universities around the world. Over 50 doctoral programs in the United States offer a specialization in organizational communication and graduate training is growing rapidly in the Netherlands, Denmark, New Zealand, Australia, and Korea. Graduate programs in organizational communication have developed in a variety of disciplines, including communication, management, marketing, organizational studies, psychology, and sociology.

This growth in advanced academic training in the field is concomitant with the production of scholarship in the area. In the past two decades, scholars have edited ...

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