This major work from renowned scholars in the field, analyzes the role of language and symbolic media and shows how this enables us to move to new levels of understanding of contemporary organizational issues.

Introduction - David Grant, Tom Keenoy and Cliff Oswick Organizational Discourse: Of Diversity, Dichotomy and Multi-DisciplinarityPART ONE: TALK AND ACTIONA Discourse on Discourse - Robert J Marshak Redeeming the Meaning of TalkWorkplace Conversations - Jill Woodilla The Text of OrganizingEmotional Discourse in Organizations - Iain L ManghamTalk and Action - Cynthia Hardy, Thomas B Lawrence and Nelson Phillips Conversations and Narrative in Interorganizational CollaborationPART TWO: STORIES AND SENSE-MAKINGSame Old Story or Changing Stories? Folkloric, Modern and Postmodern Mutations - Yiannis GabrielAs God Created the Earth... A Saga That Makes Sense? - Miriam Salzer-M[um]orlingThe Struggle with Sense - Anne Wallemacq and David SimsPART THREE: DISCOURSE AND SOCIAL THEORYLinearity, Control and Death - Gibson BurrellAn Organization Is a Conversation - Gerrit BroekstraMetaphor, Language and Meaning - Didier Cazal and Dawn InnsOrganizational Analysis as Discourse Analysis - Mike Reed A CritiquePART FOUR: A CONCLUDING DISCOURSEDiscourse, Organizations and Paradox - Richard Dunford and Ian Palmer