Within the personal branding movement, people and their careers are marketed as brands
complete with promises of performance, specialized designs, and tag lines for success …

François Cooren's remarkable book is destined to become one of the keystone texts of an
emerging new school of theorization and research: the investigation of organization as a …

Organizational communication covers an eclectic mix of approaches, theories, and
methodologies, developed within organizational settings or applied from other areas. The …

This review essay examines a broad multidisciplinary literature on democracy and work,
highlighting issues of theory and practice of special interest to communication scholars. The …

Scholars of organizational communication have begun to focus diligently on organization as
gendered, yet we continue to neglect the ways in which it is fundamentally raced. With this …

In this study, the authors explore the idea that organizations perform in contradictory ways
because they must satisfy contradictory expectations. The authors present a case study of …

This study explores the metaphor of managing diversity and its related discourses that
dominate current business communication about the changing workforce. We examine the …

The contributions critique specific aspects of the literature such as chaos theory, leadership,
and careers, and suggest ways to improve the discipline. Part I consists of theoretical …

Over the last few decades, annual reports have been content-analyzed to measure various
organizational phenomena. These studies assume, either implicitly or explicitly, that Annual …

Organizational communication is particularly important during times of uncertainty and
turmoil, such as the first few weeks of COVID-19 in the United States. This paper explores …