Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity

Introduction: Laying Down a Path in Walking PART I. EMBRACING AMBIGUITY 1. Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communication 2. Meaning and Interpretation in Organizations 3. Conflict at Disneyland: A Root-Metaphor Analysis 4. Reconsidering Openness in Organizational Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg and Marsha G. Witten PART II. TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATION 5. Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing 6. Miscommunication in Organizations - Eric M. Eisenberg and Steven R. Phillips 7. Dialogue as Democratic Discourse 8. A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education 9. From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997 10. Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost 11.Transforming Organizations Through Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg, Linda Andrews, Alexandra Murphy, and Linda Laine-Timmerman 12. Flirting With Meaning PART III. A NEW COMMUNICATION AESTHETIC 13. The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship 14. Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity 15. Creating Clearings for Communication 16. Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of Contingency Conclusion