Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1. Organizing Disciplinary Identity: A Framework . . 4
A. Identifying organizational communication . . . . 5
B. Organizational communication as
difference and sameness . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
2. Identity in Sameness: Organizational
Communication’s Intersection with
Subdisciplines of Communication Studies . . . 7
A. Organizational communication and
rhetoric & discourse studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
B. Interpersonal communication . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
C. Critical/cultural communication . . . . . . . . . . . 11
3. Identity in Distinction:
How Organizational Communication
Enacts Difference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
A. Negotiations of meaning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13
B. Interplay of meaning, structure,
and process . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .14
4. Identity in Action:
Organizational Communication Scholarship
Addressing Current Issues . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .16
A. New communication technologies . . . . . . . . .16
B. Organizational knowledge and networks . . . .18
C. Interorganizational relationships . . . . . . . . . .18
D. Organizational communication gone global .18
5. Organizational Communication:
An Evolving Identity in a
Changing Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .19
References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .20
Book Reviews . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .28
Recommended Citation
Feldner, Sarah Bonewits and D’Urso, Scott C.
(2010)
"Threads of Intersection and Distinction: Joining an Ongoing Conversation within Organizational Communication Research,"
Communication Research Trends: Vol. 29:
No.
1, Article 1.
Available at:
https://scholarcommons.scu.edu/crt/vol29/iss1/1