People often share opinions and information with their social ties, and word of mouth has an
important impact on consumer behavior. But what drives interpersonal communication and …

" My thinking is first and last and always for the sake of my doing, and I can only do one thing
at a time"(James 1 890/1983: 960). The pragmatics of social cognition, foreseen by James …

Virtual Reality (VR) has been increasingly referred to as the “ultimate empathy machine”
since it allows users to experience any situation from any point of view. However, empirical …

Despite the clear importance of team creativity for organizations, the conditions that foster it
are not very well understood. Even though diversity, especially diversity of perspectives and …

Positive Organizational Scholarship (POS) is an umbrella concept used to emphasize what
elevates and what is inspiring to individuals and organizations by defining the possibilities …

This book, first published in 1996, argues that language use is more than the sum of a
speaker speaking and a listener listening. It is the joint action that emerges when speakers …

After his earlier book Discourse and Context, also published by Cambridge University Press,
Teun A. van Dijk in this study presents the second part of his multidisciplinary theory of …

Knowledge-intensive firms are composed of multiple communities with specialized
expertise, and are often characterized by lateral rather than hierarchical organizational …

Humans have a fundamental need to experience a shared reality with others. We present a
new conceptualization of shared reality based on four conditions. We posit (a) that shared …

When people interpret language, they can reduce the ambiguity of linguistic expressions by
using information about perspective: the speaker's, their own, or a shared perspective. In …