Discourse and Organization

Introduction/Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity Dichotomy and Multi-Disciplinarity/PART ONE: TALK AND ACTION/A Discourse on Discourse/Redeeming the Meaning of Talk/Workplace Conversations/The Text of Organizing/Emotional Discourse in Organizations/Talk and Action/Conversations and Narrative in Interorganizational Collaboration/PART TWO: STORIES AND SENSE-MAKING/Same Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric Modern and Postmodern Mutations/As God Created the Earth... A Saga That Makes Sense?/The Struggle with Sense/PART THREE: DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL THEORY/Linearity Control and Death/An Organization Is a Conversation/Metaphor Language and Meaning/Organizational Analysis as Discourse Analysis /A Critique/PART FOUR: A CONCLUDING DISCOURSE/Discourse Organizations and Paradox