James R Taylor
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 186113 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | James R Taylor |
| NOMBRES | James R |
| APELLIDO | Taylor |
| FIRMA | TAYLOR J R |
| AFILIACIONES | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2552-4196 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 137 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1974 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
La base communicationnelle de l'organisation
Des travaux récents en sociologie de la connaissance scientifique nous amènent à penser que l'organisation existe dans les processus d'interprétation de ses membres. Une théorie de la communication est présentée qui considère le processus communicationnel comme une traduction ayant deux facettes, du texte à la conversation et de la conversation au texte. En nous servant de cette théorie comme base, une conception de formes complexes et étendues d…
Réflexion sur l'organisation dans une nouvelle optique. Enquête sur le fondement ontologique de l'organisation
De l’avis général, la mondialisation transforme l'organisation. Cet article propose une théorie de l'organisation qui se prête à l'étude du changement en attirant l'attention sur deux phénomènes quelque peu négligés, à savoir : l'origine de la hiérarchie dans la communication et le rôle joué par cette dernière dans la constitution de l'identité de l'organisation en tant qu'agente. L’auteur soutient que l'organisation débute sous le couvert d’une …
Qu'est-ce qui rend la communication « organisationnelle »?
Comment une organisation se constitue-t-elle en tant qu'acteur? Cet article explore la propriété de la communication qui explique comment une organisation peut entrer dans le champ du discours, exprimer une intention et se voir accorder une voix. L'article soutient que la communication devient explicitement « organisationnelle » lorsqu'une agentivité collective trouve son expression dans une acteur identifiable, et que l'acteur est reconnu par la…
La métaconversation
Dans cet article, nous soutenons que les conséquences du caractère récursif du langage ont été largement négligées dans la recherche sur le rôle de celui-ci dans les processus organisants (organizing). À partir d’une approche narrative de la construction du sens (sensemaking) par le langage, nous illustrons comment la métaconversation est constituée, et comment cette métaconversation intègre et reconstruit les conversations locales au sein d’une …
Trouver l'organisation dans la communication
Cet article discute de deux façons dont le langage et le discours sont associés dans la conception de l'organisation : en tant qu'activités communicationnelles des agent·e·s (conversations); et en tant qu'interprétations discursives définissant les agent·e·s, buts et organisations (textes). La conversation, cadrée dans un environnement matériel/social et langagier, est le site où l'organisation se produit et où l’agentivité et le texte sont génér…
L’organisation comme effet de médiation
Comment expliquer un phénomène aussi général et aussi central que l’organisation sociale ? Telle est la question abordée dans cet article. Partant de l’analyse de l’énonciation, et plus généralement de la communication, celui-ci tente de démontrer la nature profondément organisante de la communication. La théorie des actes de langage (Austin, Searle et Vanderveken) est mobilisée et reformulée selon un nouveau modèle analytique basé sur le concept…
L'organisation en tant que configuration (imbriquée) de transactions
Cet article défend l’idée selon laquelle la communication en tant que principal objet de la théorie et de la recherche, conduit à de nouvelles perspectives sur la nature de l’organisation, telle qu’elle apparaît actuellement dans les études sur la stratégie, l’institutionnalisation, les objets-frontière, le discours et la matérialité. Sur le plan de la communication, une organisation est à la fois une configuration de pratiques, chacune avec ses …
Coorientation
The concept of coorientation originated in the work of Theodore Newcomb, who argued for a conception of communication as simultaneously (a) directed to an object of common concern that is (b) embedded within a bilateral relationship of actors, each with their own different interest in the object. He designated the unit A–B–X, where A and B are the two parties, and X is the object they both focus on. Here we consider the influence of this coorient…
The Three Schools of CCO Thinking
The idea of the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) has gained considerable attention in organizational communication studies. This rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor is driven by three main schools of thought: the Montreal School of Organizational Communication, the Four-Flows Model (based on Giddens’s Structuration Theory), and Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems. In this article, we let proponents of all three schools direc…
Rethinking the role of roadmaps in strategic planning
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explore the problem of reconfiguring epistemic boundaries and the authority relationships that these boundaries represent in corporate R&D. The authors focus the analysis on the mediation of this reconfiguration by project management tools, specifically the development plan and its subsidiary roadmaps and timelines. Design/methodology/approach – The authors analyze discourse data from an ethnographic stud…
Communication as Organizing
Communication As Organizing
The calculation of business, or the business of calculation? Accounting as organizing through everyday communication
This article examines the language of numbers as it is used in talk within a contemporary organization to provide a better understanding of the ways speech acts, performed during the construction of accounts, contribute to the process of organizing. Based on an in-depth case study of the site budgetary control process in a French construction firm, it shows that the business of doing calculations through talk generates respective obligations and,…
A humanitarian organization in action
Following Alvesson and Kärreman's (2000) influential essay on the modes and interpretation of organizational discourse, this article reports on a longitudinal study of naturally occurring interactions that took place before, during, and after a meeting between representatives of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), a well-known humanitarian organization, and representatives of local health centers in a region of the Democratic Repu…
Da tecnologia na organização à organização na tecnologia
Durante estas três décadas, envolvi-me em avaliações de ambiciosos projectos de introdução de novas tecnologias nas organizações. Testemunhei a repetição deste padrão muito frequentemente: as expectativas iniciais altas, encorajadas pelos aficionados entusiásticos das novas tecnologias, terminam provocando um relativo desapontamento e, às vezes, uma desilusão. Mas após um terço de século talvez esteja na hora de analisar mais profundamente as raz…
Finding the Organization in the Communication
This article discusses two ways in which language and discourse have entered the conception of organizing: as communicative activities of agents ( conversations); and as discursively based interpretations defining agents, purposes, and organizations ( texts). Conversation, framed within a material/social and a language environment, is the site where organizing occurs and where agency and text are generated. As text, in turn, the language environm…
The 2001 Southam Lecture
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 o…
Organizational Communication Research
This chapter summarizes the state of theory and research in organizational communication. The authors highlight the central concerns and major challenges addressed by organizational communication researchers. They begin by isolating the central intellectual and practical currents, and then they identify defining and constituting concepts in organizational communication. The chapter concludes with the authors’ proposals of fruitful areas for futur…
The 'rational' organization reconsidered
This paper argues for an enlargement of our conception of rationality to include forms of reasoning, intelligence, and cognition that are communicatively, rather than discursively, based. To defend the thesis that understanding emerges in the collective interactive processes of practically situated conversation, as well as in individual thought, this paper examines the theoretical literature devoted to self-organizing systems and the empirical li…
Is There a “Canadian” Approach to the Study of Organizational Communication
Although few departments in Canada have identified organizational communication as an area for priority development, this paper argues that there is at least a virtual “Canadian approach” to the field. It outlines three factors that might serve to distinguish such an approach: (1) the influence of Harold Innis; (2) the crossroads situation of Canadian scholars, resulting in a confluence of both European and American ideas; and, inspired by an ana…
Organization as an Effect of Mediation
How can we explain a phenomenon as general and as central as social organization? This is the question discussed in this article. Starting from the analysis of uttering, and more generally, communication, it attempts to demonstrate the profoundly organizing nature of communication. Speech act theory (Austin, Searle, and Vanderveken) is used and reformulated in a new analytical model based on the concept of "modality" borrowed from the Greimassian…
What makes communication 'organizational
Making sense of sensemaking
Organization, as we understand the term, is both socially constructed (Berger & Luckmann, 1966) and a social construction (Searle, 1995). It is accomplished through the discourse of its members. At the heart of the accomplishment is sensemaking (Weick, 1995). Weick, and others (notably Bruner, 1991) see narrative as the basis of sensemaking. In this article, we outline a theory of narrativity originally developed by Algirdas Greimas and his assoc…
The Communicational Basis of Organization
Recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge leads us to believe that organization exists in the interpretive processes of its members. A theory of communication is presented which views the communicational process as a double translation, from text to conversation and conversation into text. Using this theory as a basis, a conception of complex and extended forms of organization is developed which demonstrates that the text-conversation …
Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication
Journal Article Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication: Communication Theory on the cusp Get access James R. Taylor James R. Taylor 1James R. Taylor is Professor of Communication and Departmental Chair at the University de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He is past president of the Canadian Communication Association. An earlier version of this article was presented to the Organizational Communi…
Organization as an Effect of Mediation
How can we explain a phenomenon as general and as central as social organization? This is the question discussed in this article. Starting from the analysis of uttering, and more generally, communication, it attempts to demonstrate the profoundly organizing nature of communication. Speech act theory (Austin, Searle, and Vanderveken) is used and reformulated in a new analytical model based on the concept of "modality" borrowed from the Greimassian…
The Communicational Basis of Organization
Recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge leads us to believe that organization exists in the interpretive processes of its members. A theory of communication is presented which views the communicational process as a double translation, from text to conversation and conversation into text. Using this theory as a basis, a conception of complex and extended forms of organization is developed which demonstrates that the text-conversation …
What makes communication 'organizational
A humanitarian organization in action
Following Alvesson and Kärreman's (2000) influential essay on the modes and interpretation of organizational discourse, this article reports on a longitudinal study of naturally occurring interactions that took place before, during, and after a meeting between representatives of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), a well-known humanitarian organization, and representatives of local health centers in a region of the Democratic Repu…
Ecological Concern, Attitudes, and Social Norms in Voting Behavior
Journal Article Ecological Concern, Attitudes, and Social Norms in Voting Behavior Get access James D. Gill, James D. Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lawrence A. Crosby, Lawrence A. Crosby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James R. Taylor James R. Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 50, …
Psychological Commitment and Its Effects on Post-Decision Evaluation and Preference Stability among Voters
High psychological commitment to a vote decision produces halo effects in the subsequent evaluation of election outcomes and is associated with greater preference stability. Among low commitment voters, preferences are more unstable and subject to less cognitive mediation. Social motivation moderates the influence of social versus personal outcomes in post-decision evaluation for high but not for low commitment voters
The calculation of business, or the business of calculation? Accounting as organizing through everyday communication
This article examines the language of numbers as it is used in talk within a contemporary organization to provide a better understanding of the ways speech acts, performed during the construction of accounts, contribute to the process of organizing. Based on an in-depth case study of the site budgetary control process in a French construction firm, it shows that the business of doing calculations through talk generates respective obligations and,…
Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication
Journal Article Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication: Communication Theory on the cusp Get access James R. Taylor James R. Taylor 1James R. Taylor is Professor of Communication and Departmental Chair at the University de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He is past president of the Canadian Communication Association. An earlier version of this article was presented to the Organizational Communi…
Organizational Communication Research
This chapter summarizes the state of theory and research in organizational communication. The authors highlight the central concerns and major challenges addressed by organizational communication researchers. They begin by isolating the central intellectual and practical currents, and then they identify defining and constituting concepts in organizational communication. The chapter concludes with the authors’ proposals of fruitful areas for futur…
Effects of Consumer Information and Education on Cognition and Choice
Experimental results showed that education can increase the number of salient dimensions. However, the importance of key dimensions appeared unaffected by education. Information was found to influence product performance expectations and preferences, although sex role differences may exist
Le fédéralisme et la câblodiffusion
Taylor James R. Le fédéralisme et la câblodiffusion : l'expérience canadienne. In: Communications, 21, 1974. La télévision par câble : une révolution dans les communications sociales ? sous la direction de Georges Friedmann. pp. 170-183
Exploitation through Contrived Dependence
There is a set of phenomena which, while clearly exploitative in character, cannot be adequately understood with reference to prevailing ideas on the subject, whether Marxian or neoclassical. The phenomena in question involve situations in which a factor service is acquired cheaply in a specific market or economic sector because the factor's alternative opportunities have been systematically rendered less accessible or less rewarding. A conceptua…
Effects of Consumer Information and Education on Cognition and Choice
Experimental results showed that education can increase the number of salient dimensions. However, the importance of key dimensions appeared unaffected by education. Information was found to influence product performance expectations and preferences, although sex role differences may exist
Psychological Commitment and Its Effects on Post-Decision Evaluation and Preference Stability among Voters
High psychological commitment to a vote decision produces halo effects in the subsequent evaluation of election outcomes and is associated with greater preference stability. Among low commitment voters, preferences are more unstable and subject to less cognitive mediation. Social motivation moderates the influence of social versus personal outcomes in post-decision evaluation for high but not for low commitment voters
Le Spectre Et La Réalité Organisationnelle
Ecological Concern, Attitudes, and Social Norms in Voting Behavior
Journal Article Ecological Concern, Attitudes, and Social Norms in Voting Behavior Get access James D. Gill, James D. Gill Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Lawrence A. Crosby, Lawrence A. Crosby Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar James R. Taylor James R. Taylor Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Public Opinion Quarterly, Volume 50, …
The Vulnerable Fortress
The Vulnerable Fortress
In this challenging book, James R. Taylor and Elizabeth J. Van Every argue that partly as a result of the introduction of information and communications technology into the workplace, the nature and authority of the traditional bureaucratic form of organization is being called into question. While not espousing technological determinism, they contend that developments in telecommunications, and computer software, constitute at one and the same ti…
The Vulnerable Fortress
Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication
Journal Article Shifting from a Heteronomous to an Autonomous Worldview of Organizational Communication: Communication Theory on the cusp Get access James R. Taylor James R. Taylor 1James R. Taylor is Professor of Communication and Departmental Chair at the University de Montréal, Montréal, Quebec, Canada. He is past president of the Canadian Communication Association. An earlier version of this article was presented to the Organizational Communi…
Making sense of sensemaking
Organization, as we understand the term, is both socially constructed (Berger & Luckmann, 1966) and a social construction (Searle, 1995). It is accomplished through the discourse of its members. At the heart of the accomplishment is sensemaking (Weick, 1995). Weick, and others (notably Bruner, 1991) see narrative as the basis of sensemaking. In this article, we outline a theory of narrativity originally developed by Algirdas Greimas and his assoc…
The Communicational Basis of Organization
Recent work in the sociology of scientific knowledge leads us to believe that organization exists in the interpretive processes of its members. A theory of communication is presented which views the communicational process as a double translation, from text to conversation and conversation into text. Using this theory as a basis, a conception of complex and extended forms of organization is developed which demonstrates that the text-conversation …
Organization as an Effect of Mediation
How can we explain a phenomenon as general and as central as social organization? This is the question discussed in this article. Starting from the analysis of uttering, and more generally, communication, it attempts to demonstrate the profoundly organizing nature of communication. Speech act theory (Austin, Searle, and Vanderveken) is used and reformulated in a new analytical model based on the concept of "modality" borrowed from the Greimassian…
What makes communication 'organizational
Is There a “Canadian” Approach to the Study of Organizational Communication
Although few departments in Canada have identified organizational communication as an area for priority development, this paper argues that there is at least a virtual “Canadian approach” to the field. It outlines three factors that might serve to distinguish such an approach: (1) the influence of Harold Innis; (2) the crossroads situation of Canadian scholars, resulting in a confluence of both European and American ideas; and, inspired by an ana…
The 2001 Southam Lecture
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 o…
Organizational Communication Research
This chapter summarizes the state of theory and research in organizational communication. The authors highlight the central concerns and major challenges addressed by organizational communication researchers. They begin by isolating the central intellectual and practical currents, and then they identify defining and constituting concepts in organizational communication. The chapter concludes with the authors’ proposals of fruitful areas for futur…
The 'rational' organization reconsidered
This paper argues for an enlargement of our conception of rationality to include forms of reasoning, intelligence, and cognition that are communicatively, rather than discursively, based. To defend the thesis that understanding emerges in the collective interactive processes of practically situated conversation, as well as in individual thought, this paper examines the theoretical literature devoted to self-organizing systems and the empirical li…
Finding the Organization in the Communication
This article discusses two ways in which language and discourse have entered the conception of organizing: as communicative activities of agents ( conversations); and as discursively based interpretations defining agents, purposes, and organizations ( texts). Conversation, framed within a material/social and a language environment, is the site where organizing occurs and where agency and text are generated. As text, in turn, the language environm…
A humanitarian organization in action
Following Alvesson and Kärreman's (2000) influential essay on the modes and interpretation of organizational discourse, this article reports on a longitudinal study of naturally occurring interactions that took place before, during, and after a meeting between representatives of Médecins sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), a well-known humanitarian organization, and representatives of local health centers in a region of the Democratic Repu…
Da tecnologia na organização à organização na tecnologia
Durante estas três décadas, envolvi-me em avaliações de ambiciosos projectos de introdução de novas tecnologias nas organizações. Testemunhei a repetição deste padrão muito frequentemente: as expectativas iniciais altas, encorajadas pelos aficionados entusiásticos das novas tecnologias, terminam provocando um relativo desapontamento e, às vezes, uma desilusão. Mas após um terço de século talvez esteja na hora de analisar mais profundamente as raz…
The calculation of business, or the business of calculation? Accounting as organizing through everyday communication
This article examines the language of numbers as it is used in talk within a contemporary organization to provide a better understanding of the ways speech acts, performed during the construction of accounts, contribute to the process of organizing. Based on an in-depth case study of the site budgetary control process in a French construction firm, it shows that the business of doing calculations through talk generates respective obligations and,…
Communication as Organizing
Communication As Organizing
The Three Schools of CCO Thinking
The idea of the communicative constitution of organizations (CCO) has gained considerable attention in organizational communication studies. This rather heterogeneous theoretical endeavor is driven by three main schools of thought: the Montreal School of Organizational Communication, the Four-Flows Model (based on Giddens’s Structuration Theory), and Luhmann’s Theory of Social Systems. In this article, we let proponents of all three schools direc…
Sociology (19 obras) · Political science (16 obras) · Philosophy (14 obras) · Computer Science (12 obras) · Epistemology (10 obras) · Management and Organizational Studies (10 obras) · Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (8 obras) · Psychology (8 obras) · Humanities (7 obras) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 obras)