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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.
Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing
Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing
This paper sought to expand the original argument about ambiguity in organizations (see Chapter 1, “Ambiguity as Strategy”) to include considerations of identity. A prepublication version of the paper was presented at the Alta Conference for Organizational Communication, which in part explains my desire to more fully consider the role of the individual, as these conferences were always focused on the lived experience of the scholar and organizational member. Borrowing a metaphor from music and sports, this paper offered preconditions for jamming experiences and stressed the importance of improvisation for successful organizing. In so doing, I sought to emphasize the individual's role in coordinated action over a more psychological notion of personal identity.
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