LEADER 05716oam 2200637I 450 001 9910545198103321 005 20220304170948.0 010 $a1-351-33350-X 010 $a1-315-68070-X 010 $a1-317-39798-3 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315680705 035 $a(CKB)4100000000775160 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4906033 035 $a(OCoLC)994342254 035 $a(ScCtBLL)595f0aa6-5f0b-440e-b6e0-ba31f764b96f 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/78179 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000000775160 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe work of communication $erelational perspectives on working and organizing in contemporary capitalism /$fTimothy Kuhn, Karen Lee Ashcraft, and Francois Cooren 205 $a1 ed. 210 $cTaylor & Francis$d2017 210 1$aLondon :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (232 pages) $cillustrations 225 1 $aRoutledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society 311 $a0-367-24306-7 311 $a1-138-93015-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $achapter 1 Encountering Working and Organizing Under Contemporary Capitalism -- chapter 2 Relationality -- Cultivating Novelty in Explorations of Working and Organizing -- chapter 3 Communicative Relationality -- chapter 4 Creativity and Relationality -- Following the Becoming of an Idea -- chapter 5 Speculative Value -- Articulating and Materializing the ?Product? in High-Tech Startup Entrepreneurship -- chapter 6 Branding Work -- Occupational Identity as Affective Economy (aka The Glass Slipper, Take Two) -- chapter 7 Conclusion -- The Value(s) of Communicative Relationality. 330 $a"The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism revolves around a two-part question: "What have work and organization become under contemporary capitalism and how should organization studies approach them?" Changes in the texture of capitalism, heralded by social and organizational theorists alike, increasingly focus attention on communication as both vital to the conduct of work and as imperative to organizational performance. Yet most accounts of communication in organization studies fail to understand an alternate sense of the "work of communication" in the constitution of organizations, work practices, and economies. This book responds to that lack by portraying communicative practices as opposed to individuals, interests, technologies, structures, organizations, or institutions as the focal units of analysis in studies of the social and organizational problems occasioned by contemporary capitalism. Rather than suggesting that there exists a canonically "correct" route communicative analyses must follow, The Work of Communication: Relational Perspectives on Working and Organizing in Contemporary Capitalism explores the value of transcending longstanding divides between symbolic and material factors in studies of working and organizing. The recognition of dramatic shifts in technological, economic, and political forces, along with deep interconnections among the myriad of factors shaping working and organizing, sows doubts about whether organization studies is up to the vital task of addressing the social problems capitalism now creates. Kuhn, Ashcraft, and Cooren argue that novel insights into those social problems are possible if we tell different stories about working and organizing. To aid authors of those stories, they develop a set of conceptual resources that they capture under the mantle of communicative relationality. These resources allow analysts to profit from burgeoning interest in notions such as sociomateriality, posthumanism, performativity, and affect. It goes on to illustrate the benefits that investigations of work and organization can realize from communicative relationality by presenting case studies that analyze (a) the becoming of an idea, from its inception to solidification, (b) the emergence of what is taken to be the "the product" in high-tech startup entrepreneurship, and (c) the branding of work (in this case, academic writing and commercial aviation) through affective economies. Taken together, the book portrays "the work of communication" as simultaneously about how work in the "new economy" revolves around communicative practice and about how communication serves as a mode of explanation with the potential to cultivate novel stories about working and organizing. Aimed at academics, researchers, and policy makers, this book';s goal is to make tangible the contributions of communication for thinking about contemporary social and organizational problems."--Provided by publisher. 410 0$aManagement, organizations and society (London, England) 606 $aOrganizational behavior 606 $aCommunication in marketing 606 $aCommunication in management 610 $aCommunication as Constitutive of Organization 610 $aCommunication Studies 610 $aKnowledge and knowledge management 610 $aorganization studies 615 0$aOrganizational behavior. 615 0$aCommunication in marketing. 615 0$aCommunication in management. 676 $a302.3/5 676 $a658.45 700 $aKuhn$b Timothy$01207177 702 $aAshcraft$b Karen Lee 702 $aCooren$b Francois 801 0$bFlBoTFG 801 1$bFlBoTFG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910545198103321 996 $aThe work of communication$92784649 997 $aUNINA