摘要:

This article examines how two communication types, lists and stories, structure organizations and claims that all organizational communication is composed of these two types. The list is rooted in science and presented as a formula for action leading to controllable outcomes. It represents standards, accountability, and certainty. Conversely, the story is romantic, humorous, tragic, and dramatic. It unfolds sequentially, with overlays, pockets of mystery, and the addition or deletion of performers. This article posits lists and stories as the central ingredients of organizational communication and suggests that their ratio, rate, and order of occurrence are problems for research and theory. It reaffirms the list as organizational communication and elevates the story to a position equal to the list. Lists are technical communication, progressive, public; and once shared they extend a power base. Stories are communications about personal experience told in everyday discourse. They reject local knowledge, give coherence to group subcultures, change over time. and contain multiple voices. The lists and stories thesis contributes to organizational communication by providing another avenue for considering structuration. The contrasting qualities of lists and stories direct focus to the question of how individuals organize. How much structure and variety are there and how much are culturally optimal?

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00045.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

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A game is an arena of competition and cooperation structured by a set of rules and assumptions about how to act in order to achieve a particular set of objectives. An ecology of games is a larger system of action composed of two or more separate but interdependent games. Defined in this way, the idea of an ecology of games is a sensitizing concept, developed within a participant‐observer, case‐study mode of inquiry. It helps make sense of the dynamics of communication policy processes. Aspects of an ecology of games—games, rules, strategies, and players—offer a grammar for describing the system of action shaping public policy. As a framework for analysis, it overcomes some limitations of sector‐specific policy studies and some weaknesses of other frameworks for the study of public policy, including group, pluralist, and elite theories of decision making. This article develops the concept of an ecology of games as an approach to the study of communication policy. It also illustrates its application by sketching the ecology of games surrounding telecommunications policy in the United States and some of the principal ways it differs from the ecology of games in othe

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00046.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00047.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00048.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00049.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00050.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY

摘要:

Books review in this article:Assessing the President: The Media, Eilte Opinion, and Public Support.Richard A. BrodyRhetoric in an Oganizational Society: Managing Multiple IdentitiesGeorge CheneyOrgenizational Communication. Peter K. Manning Aldine de GruyterMicrosoclology: Dircwme, Emotion, and Social StmctumThomas J. Schdeff

ISSN:1050-3293    

DOI:10.1111/j.1468-2885.1992.tb00051.x

出版商:Blackwell Publishing Ltd    

年代:1992

数据来源: WILEY