Strategic ambiguities/ Eric M Eisenberg

Introduction: Laying Down a Path in WalkingPART I. EMBRACING AMBIGUITY1. Ambiguity as Strategy in Organizational Communication2. Meaning and Interpretation in Organizations3. Conflict at Disneyland: A Root-Metaphor Analysis4. Reconsidering Openness in Organizational Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg and Marsha G. WittenPART II. TRANSCENDENCE AND TRANSFORMATION5. Jamming: Transcendence Through Organizing6. Miscommunication in Organizations - Eric M. Eisenberg and Steven R. Phillips7. Dialogue as Democratic Discourse8. A Communication Perspective on Interorganizational Cooperation and Inner-City Education9. From Anxiety to Possibility: Poems 1987-199710. Openness and Decision Making in the Search for a University Provost11.Transforming Organizations Through Communication - Eric M. Eisenberg, Linda Andrews, Alexandra Murphy, and Linda Laine-Timmerman12. Flirting With MeaningPART III. A NEW COMMUNICATION AESTHETIC13. The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship14. Building a Mystery: Communication and the Development of Identity15. Creating Clearings for Communication 16. Karl Weick and the Aesthetics of Contingency Conclusion