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Communicating and Organizing in Context
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Communicating and Organizing in Context

by Beth Bonniwell Haslett
June 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
432 pages
17h 8m
English
Routledge
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A FRAME SYSTEM FOR ORGANIZING

What is an organization? At the heart of this question lie issues of structure, agency, materiality, knowledgeability and the communicative constitution of organizations. On the one hand, everyone “knows” what an organization is and appreciates the fact that we are suspended in a web of organizations in our daily lives—a layperson's view of organizations, if you like. On the other hand, what are the boundaries of organizations? What are their interconnections? What are the relationships among various groups participating in the organization? These are questions less easily answered.

In what follows, I will develop a frame system of organizing, consistent with both Goffman's and Giddens’ perspectives and examine ...

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