Perspectives on Organizational Communication: Finding Common Ground. (Other Reviews). (book...

Steven R. Corman and Marshall Scott Poole, eds. New York: Guilford, 2000. 265 pp. $25.00, paper.

This edited book is the product of a panel discussion from the 1997 National Communication Association convention. As Corman, the first editor of the book, reveals in his introduction, he organized this panel because he had a "growing concern about the tone of scholarly disagreement about metatheory" in the field of organizational communication (p. 3). Corman believes that there is an "increasing stridency" among proponents of different perspectives, which has led to an "ap