Introduction

Beverly Davenport Sypher

Making Sense out of Creativity and Constraints: Winning Ways' GEAR for Sports

Beverly Davenport Sypher

Sherianne Shuler

Pamela A. Whitten

Conflict and Communication in a Research and Development Unit

BarbaraJ. O'Keefe

Bruce L. Lambert

Carol A. Lambert

Vocabularies of Motives in a Crisis of Academic Leadership: ``Hell Hath No Fury...''

Brenda J. Allen

Phillip K. Tompkins

The Many Meanings of ``Solidarity'': The Negotiation of Values in the Mondragon Worker-Cooperative Complex under Pressure

George Cheney

There's No Smile on Your Face, Brother John: The Trials and Tribulations of Human Service Work

Katherine Miller

Disciplining a Teammate: Control in Self-Managing Teams

James R. Barker

The Utilization of Employee Assistance Programs at the Harding Company

Debra C. Mazloff

Reengineering at LAC: A Case Study of Emergent Network Processes

Dean H. Krikorian

David R. Seibold

Patricia L. Goode

Negotiating a Japanese Buyout of a U.S. Company: Concepts of Work as Subtext

Jill Kleinberg

Submerging the Emergent Culture: A Conflict in Mission in a Human Service Organization

Eileen Berlin Ray

The Business Concept and Managerial Control in Knowledge-Intensive Work: A Case Study of Discursive Power

Stanley Deetz

The Politics of Information Systems: Rational Designs and Organizational Realities

Noshir S. Contractor

Barbara J. O'Keefe

Information and Organizational Development: Enhancing Reflexivity at Alexander Center

Gary L. Kreps

I Heard It through the Grapevine: Dealing with Office Rumors, Politics, and Total Quality Management

Angela J. Wilhelm

Gail T. Fairhurst

The Public Electronic Network: Interactive Communication and Interpersonal Distance

Everett M. Rogers

Marcel M. Allbritton

Interorganizational Diffusion: Integrated Demonstrations and the U.S. Department of Energy

James W. Dearing

Integrating Electronic Communication at Texaco

Gerardine DeSanctis

Brad M. Jackson

Marshall Scott Poole

Gary W. Dickson

Telemedicine in Kansas: Using Technology to Bring Healthcare to Rural Areas

Pamela S. Whitten

The Uncooperative Cooperative: Attempting to Improve Employee Morale at Weaver Street Market

Theodore E. Zorn

Men Will Be ``Boys'' and Women Will Be ``Whores'': The Case of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal

Michelle T. Violanti

Sexual Harassment on the Menu

Shereen G. Bingham

The Dispossessed: Case Studies in Reconstructing Identities at the End of the Organizational Age

H. L. Goodall, Jr.

Eric M. Eisenberg

About the Authors

Index