Abstract: The thinking of Harold Innis on the relationship of communication to the rise and fall of historical forms of social organization has been little exploited in the context of contemporary organizational dynamics. In this essay, I use Innis' distinction between the vernacular and writing as an explanatory device to examine current trends in organization. Many of the patterns Innis pointed to can equally be found in the formation and disappearance of large organizations in our time, even though the time scale is radically compressed compared to his historical analyses. In one respect, however, a new pattern is emerging in the postmodern organization, where the "vernacular" is that of the writers, not the written, with paradoxical imp...
Fifty years after his death, Harold Innis remains one of the most widely cited but least understood ...
The paper takes the assumptions of bounded rationality as the premise for organization theorizing. I...
The Aston Studies have proved a seminal reference point for the development of mainstream organizati...
Harold Innis is arguably the most influential social scientist Canada has ever produced. Nearly fift...
From time to time, a mirror is placed before us and we are chal-lenged as organizational communicati...
Commentary: It is easier to articulate the issues addressed in this piece today than it was when Wri...
Abstract: The complexity of Innis ’ texts has led to the streamlining of his main ideas and argument...
Abstract: This essay proposes that Harold Innis' theory of communication can make a crucial contribu...
Over the last 15 years, critical organization theorists have increasingly adopted postmodernist pers...
Abstract Currently a dilemma within organization studies seems to be represented by, on the one hand...
Over the last few decades the field of organization studies has expanded rapidly. It has come to co...
Over the last 15 years, critical organization theorists have increasingly adopted postmodernist pers...
This essay is motivated by two related observations about the field of organization studies. First, ...
The terms 'modem' and 'postmodern' have become common currency in intel lectual debates within organ...
This essay intends to recover human agency from holistic, abstract, even oppressive conceptions of s...
Fifty years after his death, Harold Innis remains one of the most widely cited but least understood ...
The paper takes the assumptions of bounded rationality as the premise for organization theorizing. I...
The Aston Studies have proved a seminal reference point for the development of mainstream organizati...
Harold Innis is arguably the most influential social scientist Canada has ever produced. Nearly fift...
From time to time, a mirror is placed before us and we are chal-lenged as organizational communicati...
Commentary: It is easier to articulate the issues addressed in this piece today than it was when Wri...
Abstract: The complexity of Innis ’ texts has led to the streamlining of his main ideas and argument...
Abstract: This essay proposes that Harold Innis' theory of communication can make a crucial contribu...
Over the last 15 years, critical organization theorists have increasingly adopted postmodernist pers...
Abstract Currently a dilemma within organization studies seems to be represented by, on the one hand...
Over the last few decades the field of organization studies has expanded rapidly. It has come to co...
Over the last 15 years, critical organization theorists have increasingly adopted postmodernist pers...
This essay is motivated by two related observations about the field of organization studies. First, ...
The terms 'modem' and 'postmodern' have become common currency in intel lectual debates within organ...
This essay intends to recover human agency from holistic, abstract, even oppressive conceptions of s...
Fifty years after his death, Harold Innis remains one of the most widely cited but least understood ...
The paper takes the assumptions of bounded rationality as the premise for organization theorizing. I...
The Aston Studies have proved a seminal reference point for the development of mainstream organizati...