Communicating Authority in Interorganizational Collaboration

1. Auflage 2024
ISBN: 978-0-367-65369-9
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 248 g

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing

The book offers an in-depth analysis of the challenges of establishing authority within collaborative efforts. It introduces the concept of cumulative authority, arguing that communicating authority effectively is key to the creation and success of collaborations.

Rice uses a communication-as-constitutive of organizations perspective to reconsider organizational authority, typically thought of in terms of leadership, as instead negotiated in communication among collaboration members as they attempt to influence the collaboration’s direction. Drawing from an extensive two-year case study of emergency management collaborations, the book traces potential influences on collaborative authority, including members’ knowledge and expertise, organizational structures and hierarchies, and the material world, including documents, technologies, and the natural environment.

This book is a valuable empirical resource for organizational communication and management students and scholars. It will also appeal to community collaborators and organizers, and contains advice and reflection questions for practitioners.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rice, Rebecca M.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Folgen von Katastrophen
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Non-Profit-Organisationen, Verbände
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. The Growing Need for Interorganizational Authority 2. Collaboration Meets Emergency Management 3. Local Knowledge and Experience as Horizontal Authority 4. Hierarchy and Institutional Texts as Vertical Authority 5. The Material World and Authority Relations 6. Conclusion: Authority as Cumulative

Über Autor(innen)

Rebecca M. Rice is an Assistant Professor of Communication Studies at University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her work examines interorganizational collaboration related to emergency and reliability organizing and has appeared in publications such as the Journal of Applied Communication Research and Management Communication Quarterly.