Includes bibliographical references and index.

Ambiguity as strategy in organizational communication (1984) -- Meaning and interpretation in organizations (1986) -- Conflict at Disneyland : a root-metaphor analysis (1987) -- Reconsidering openness in organizational communication (1987) -- Jamming: transcendence through organizing (1990) -- Miscommunication in organizations (1991) -- Dialogue as democratic discourse (1994) -- A communication perspective on interorganizational cooperation and inner-city education (1995) -- From anxiety to possibility: poems 1987-1997 (1998) -- Openness and decision making in the search for a university provost (1998) -- Transforming organizations through communication (1999) -- Flirting with meaning (1998) -- The kindness of strangers : hospitality in organizational communication scholarship (2000) -- Building a mystery : communication and the development of identity (2001) -- Creating clearings for communication (2005) -- Karl Weick and the aesthetics of contingency (2006).