The Situated Organization

Reviews / Votes

"What happens when a fresh but solid foothold in the theory of pragmatics starts to interact with a range of novel case studies in communication research? Read it yourself and be inspired!"






Hans Weigand, Tilburg University, the Netherlands

"The Situated Organization is an innovative work that accomplishes its purpose: to present its readers with theories and to reflect upon such theories through empirical studies."






Marlene Marchiori, Londrina State University, Brazil

"The Situated Organization was an eye-opener to me. It presents and illustrates new, fundamental and important insights in what organizations are from a communication point of view, and how essential communication is in understanding what organization is. These insights can contribute beyond communication studies, in realms like organization science, management science, information systems, and enterprise engineering."






Stijn Hoppenbrouwers, Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands

"This book develops an interesting conceptual framework based on the idea of "organization-as-thirdness". Applying concepts from semiotic, philosophy of language, ethnomethodology, etc; the authors put forth a convincing argument demonstrating the constructive role of communication in organization."






Sylvie Grosjean, University of Ottawa

"Taylor and Van Every contribute to the general understanding of the sometimes overly abstract writing of the Montreal School. ... The Situated Organization is a good first read for students and teachers of organizational communication ... it is Taylor and Van Every's very practice of empirical research that sheds yet another light on organization, organizations, and - organization studies. In the words of Taylor and Van Every, 'Organization is alive and well!'"



Organization Studies 2011 (Reviewed by Steffen Blaschke, University of Hamburg, Germany)