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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.
Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of Contingency
Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of Contingency
This essay was commissioned as part of a special issue of the journal Organization Studies, in honor of the work of management scholar Karl Weick. Ever since I first read him in the 1970s, Weick has had enormous influence on both my work and my worldview. Weick sang the praises of equivocality long before it was acceptable to do so, and this paper both celebrates his unique vision and conducts a thorough assessment of the ways in which contingency is an exemplary framework for certain kinds of organizational communication.
This paper contains my latest thinking about the relationship between organizational communication and sense-making. Although I take Weick to task some for his unwillingness ...
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