Strategic Ambiguities: Essays on Communication, Organization, and Identity Book

Introduction: Laying Down a Path in Walking     vii
Embracing Ambiguity     1
Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communication (1984)     3
Meaning and Interpretation in Organizations (1986)     25
Conflict at Disneyland: A Root-Metaphor Analysis (1987)     39
Reconsidering Openness in Organizational Communication (1987)     59
Transcendence and Transformation     73
Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing (1990)     75
Miscommunication in Organizations (1991)     100
Dialogue as Democratic Discourse (1994)     118
A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education (1995)     129
From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-1997 (1998)     144
Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost (1998)     152
Transforming Organizations Through Communication (1999)     183
Flirting With Meaning (1998)     210
A New Communication Aesthetic     223
The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship (2000)     225
Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity (2001)     234
Creating Clearings for Communication (2005)     257
Karl Weick and the Aesthetics ofContingency (2006)     270
Conclusion: Beyond Fundamentalism     289
Index     299
About the Author     312