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This book accounts for the transformation of organizations in a post-bureaucratic era by bringing a communicational lens to the ontological discussion on organization/disorganization, offering a conceptual and methodological toolbox for studying dis/organizationa asa communication.a Increasingly, scholars acknowledge that communication isa constitutive ofa organization; because meaning is always indeterminate, communication also (and simultaneously) generatesa disorganization.a The book synthesizes the major theoretical trends and empirical studies in communication that engage with dis/organization.a Drawing on dialectics, relational ontologies, critical theory, systems theory, and affect thinking, the first part of the book offers communicational explanations ofa howa dis/organizationa unfolds. The second part of the book grounds this theoretical reflection,a providinga empirical studies that mobilize diverse methodological and analytical frameworksa (e.g.,a ethnography,a situational, interactionala and genre analysis)a for studying the practices of dis/organization. Overall, the booka exposesa organizationsa (and organizing processes) asa significantly messier, irrational (or a-rational),a and paradoxical than scholars of organization typically think. It also offers readers the conceptual and methodological tools to understand these complex processesa asa communication.This book will be essential reading for scholars in organizational communication or management and organization studies, together with senior undergraduate and graduate students studyinga organizational communication, organizational discourse, discourse analysis (including rhetoric, semiotics, pragmatism, narratology) and courses in management studies. It will also be richly rewarding for organizational consultants, managers and executives.