Organizations and the Media
Organizing in a Mediatized World
Edited by Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård
To Be Published December 1st 2013 by Routledge – 256 pages
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Description
The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, and has witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel, organizations have dramatically increased their investment in PR and other media oriented forms of communication. The expansion and increased importance of the media and its working practices and preferences has become an institutional force, alongside other societal developments such as globalization, marketization, individualization and scientification. The media has become central for shaping the environment in which organizations operate.
This complex relationship remains relatively under-researched, especially with respect to the complexity and diversity of interests permeating contemporary business organizations. The main argument in this book relates to the notion of mediatization of contemporary organizations - that is to say the media must be understood not only as important in covering and scrutinizing individual organizations, industry or markets but also as a key influence on the actions of organizations, thereby shaping the entire landscape in which the organizations operate. What such a perspective provides is the accentuation of the interplay between organizations and different parts of the society as embedded in the media and its logic.
This book explores how organizations and organizing can be understood as a part of a mediatized world and addresses – both empirically and conceptually - what kind of consequences such mediatization has.
Contents
1. Introduction (Josef Pallas and Lars Strannegård) Part I: Organizations and Media 2. The Institutionality of the Media Environment of Organizations (John C. Lammers) 3. The Role of Business Media in Constructing Rational Myths of Organization (Roy Suddaby) 4. Community of Practice: New Ways of Corporate Governance in a Mediatized World (Lars Engwall) Part II: News In The Making 5. What News is Fit to Print?: A Multi-Level Framework Explaining the Production of News about Organizations (Craig Carroll and David Deephouse) 6. What’s Good News?: Journalism meets Management in News Production (Elena Raviola) 7. Outside the Newsdesk: The Recursive Production of Business News (Josef Pallas and Jaan Grünberg) 8. The Role of the Business Press in Stabilizing and Destabilizing Notions of Audit Failure: The Case of Intrum Justitia (Gustav Johed and Thomas Carrington) 9. On the Social Construction of Corruption in the Media: A Critical Discursive Approach (Eero Vaara and Eric Breit) 10. Engaging with the Crowd: Three Cases of Corporate Use of Social Media for Stakeholder Interaction (Mark Aakhus, Pär Ågerfalk and Mikael Lind) 11. Closing Gaps in Time and Space: Social Media Influence on Business Organizations and News (Jennifer Bartlett) 12. Loudmouths: The Media as Institutional Provocateur (Jesper Edman and Stefan Jonsson) Part III: Towards Mediatized Theories of Organizations 13. Priming and Framing in Corporate Communications (Laura Illia) 14. Codification of Everything (Barbara Czarniawska) 15. Mediatization in New Areas: The Changed Role of Public Bureacracies (Øyvind Ihlen, Kjersti Thorbjørnsrud and Tine Ustad Figenshcou) 16. Organizational and Institutional Dynamics of Mediatization (Josef Pallas and Magnus Fredriksson)
Author Bio
Josef Pallas is Lecturer and Researcher in the Department of Business Studies and the Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University, Sweden
Lars Strannegård is Professor in the Department of Management and Organization at Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden
Name: Organizations and the Media: Organizing in a Mediatized World (Hardback) – Routledge
Description: Edited by Josef Pallas, Lars Strannegård. The relationship between media and the organizations they cover has changed dramatically in the last few decades, and has witnessed a huge expansion of news coverage focusing on different types of organizations and their activities. In parallel,...
Categories: Organizational Studies, Communication Studies, Public Relations, New Media, Public Relations