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readings list

reading list for the summer (2007)
Each citation is a link to notes and information on that reading.


Narrative and Organizations
Boje, D. M. (2001). Narrative Methods for Organizational & Communication Research.
Brown, A. D. (1998). Narrative, politics and legitimacy in an IT implementation. Journal of Management Studies, 35, 35-58.
Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1997). Narrating the Organization: Dramas of Institutional Identity.
Czarniawska-Joerges, B. (1998). A Narrative Approach to Organization Studies.
Gabriel, Y. (2000). Storytelling in Organizations: Facts, Fictions, and Fantasies
Martin, J., Feldman, M.S. Hatch, M.J., & Sitkin, S.B. (1983). The Uniqueness Paradox in Organizational Stories. Administrative Science Quarterly, 28, 438-453.
Rhodes, C. & Brown, A. D. (2005). Narrative, organizations and research. International Journal of Management Reviews, 7, 167-188.


Communication Technology and Organizations
Books
Browning, L. D., Saetre, A. S., Stephens, K. K., & Sornes, J. (2004). Information & communication technologies in action: Linking theory & narratives of practice. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School.
Fulk, J., & Steinfield, C., Eds. (1990). Organizations and communication technology. Newbury Park, CA: Sage.
Kunda. Engineering Culture: Control and Commitment in a High Tech Corporation.
Lievrouw, L. A., & Livingstone, S. (2002). Handbook of new media: Social shaping and consequences of ICTs. London: Sage.
Taylor, J. R., Groleau, C., Heaton, L, & Van Every, E. (2001). The computerization of work. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Articles
Argenti, P. A. (2006). How technology has influenced the field of Corporate Communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 20, 357-370.
Bach, J., & Stark, D. (2004). Link, search, interact: The co-evolution of NGOs and interactive technology. Theory, Culture & Society, 21, 101-117.
Corman, S. R. (2006). On being less theoretical and more technological in organizational communication. Journal of Business and Technical Communication, 20, 325-338.
Dutton, W. H. (1999). The web of technology and people: Challenges for economic and social research. Prometheus, 17, 5-20.
Howard, P. N. (2002). Network ethnography and the hypermedia organization: New media, new organizations, new methods. New Media & Society, 4, 550-574.
Jackson, M. H. (1996). The meaning of "communication technology": The technology-context scheme. Communication Yearbook, 19, 229-267.
Liker, J. K., Haddad, C. J., & Karlin, J. (1999). Perspectives on technology and work organization. Annual Review of Sociology, 25, 575-596.
Orlikowski, W. J. (2000). Using technology and constituting structures: A practice lens for studying technology in organizations Organization Science, 11, 404-428.
Orlikowski, W. J., & Barley, S. R. (2001). Technology and institutions: What can research on information technology and research on organizations learn from each other? MIS Quarterly, 25, 145-165.
Vaast, E. (2004). O brother, where are thou? From communities to networks of practice through Intranet use. Management Communication Quarterly, 18, 5-44.


Additional Readings

Rhetoric and Organizing
Cheney, G. (1983). The rhetoric of identification and the study of organizational communication. Quarterly Journal of Speech, 69, 43-58.
Cheney, G. (1991). Rhetoric in an Organizational Society: Managing Multiple Identities. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press.
Tompkins, P. K., Fisher, J. Y., Infante, D. A., & Tompkins, E. L. (1975). Kenneth Burke and the inherent characteristics of formal organizations: A field study. Speech Monographs, 42, 135-142.

Methods
Downey, G. L. (1998) The Machine in Me: An Anthropologist Sits Among Computer Engineers
Mann, C. & Stewart, F. (2000). Internet Communication and Qualitative Research. A Handbook for Researching Online. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Markham, A. (1998). Life Online: Researching Real Experience in Virtual Space. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Other

Cooren, F. (1999). Applying Socio-Semiotics to Organizational Communication: A New Approach. Management Communication Quarterly, 13; 294
Jordan, K., J. Hauser et al. (2003) ‘The Augmented Social Network: Building Identity and Trust into the Next-generation Internet’, The Link Tank
Malone and Laubacher (1998). The dawn of the e-lance economy. Harvard Business Review, 76(5), 144-52.
Markus, M. L., & Robey, D. (1988). Information technology and organizational change: causal structure in theory and research. Management Science, 34, 583-598.
Perlow (1997). Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices.
Raymond, E. (1999). The Cathedral and the Bazaar. Knowledge, Technology, and Policy, 12(3), 23 – 49.
Salancik, G. R. & Pfeffer, J. (1978). A Social Information Processing Approach to Job Attitudes and Task Design. Administrative Science Quarterly, 23, 224-253.
Simpson, R. L., & Simpson, I. H. (1988). Research in the Sociology of Work: High Tech Work (Volume 4).