Critical Transformations in Organizational Communication

Critical Transformations in Organizational Communication explores the transformative potential of critical inquiry in organizational communication.The contributors of this edited volume challenge taken-for-granted ways of knowing to disrupt, decenter, or problematize what has emerged as normalized organizational or social practices. Blurring the boundaries between organizational communication and larger social issues, each chapter directs attention to relevant possibilities, new understandings, and alternative vocabularies capable of inspiring readers to consider different ways of acting and being. By disrupting the taken-for-granted aspects of organizational or social life, each chapter aims to reveal useful possibilities for transforming the ways we communicate and organize. Collectively, the chapters invite organizational researchers and practitioners to consider alternatives and discover different ways of interacting that can generate more supportive or productive futures.This broad yet cohesive volume offers a unique and timely focus for critical organizational communication research. It will interest researchers, practitioners, and others curious about the transformative potential inherent in the critical exploration of communication and the ways we organize.

About the Author

John G. McClellan is an associate professor of organizational communication at Aalborg University, Denmark. His research interests include organizational change and collaborative practices with attention to the relational qualities of organizing and the politics of communication. Among other outlets, his work appears in the journals Organization , Management Communication Quarterly , Journal of Change Management , and the International Journal of Business Communication .

Peter Kastberg is a professor of organizational communication and the founding director of the Communicating Organizations research group at the Faculty of the Humanities, Aalborg University, Denmark. He is the founder and main organizer of the Dark Side conference series. Among his current research interests count: Philosophy of communication, the sociology of knowledge, critical organizational communication, HR communication, the mediation of specialized knowledge across knowledge asymmetries and communication theory.

Lise-Lotte Holmgreen is an associate professor of discourse, media and organizations at Aalborg University, Denmark. Her current research interests include investigating the construction of social phenomena such as leadership, culture, and identity in real-life organizational contexts from a critical perspective. The aim of her research is to uncover and critically assess discursive practices that contribute to upholding or establishing power and inequality in organizational contexts. Her work appears, among others, in the journals Discourse , Context & Media , Narrative Inquiry , and The International Journal of Business Communication .