This article reviews scholarship dealing with the notion of “boundary work,” defined as
purposeful individual and collective effort to influence the social, symbolic, material, or …

Many articles about information technology use in organizations published during the past
five or so years employ one of the following three terms:“Materiality,”“Sociomateriality,” or …

Employees in many contemporary organizations work with flexible routines and flexible
technologies. When those employees find that they are unable to achieve their goals in the …

Ask a person on the street whether new technologies bring about important social change
and you are likely to hear a resounding" yes." But the answer is less definitive amongst …

Today's organizations face a wide variety of challenges, including such contradictions as
maintaining unity of action while becoming increasingly diverse. Even the definition of …

This essay aims to “materialize” organizational communication in three senses. First, we
seek to make the field of study bearing this name more tangible for North American …

What happens when two or more people communicate or interact with each other? This is
the daunting question that this book proposes to address by starting from a somewhat …

Although the lion's share of scholarship in management and organization studies conceives
of organizations as entities within which communication occurs,“Communication Constitutes …

While there is extensive research on emotion in the workplace and on information and
communication technology (ICT) implementation, largely ignored is the emotionality of ICT …

We argue that the implications of the recursivity of language largely have been overlooked
in the literature exploring the role of language in organizing. Exploiting a narrative …