1st Edition

Speaking With One Voice Multivocality and Univocality in Organizing

Edited By Chantal Benoit-Barné, Thomas Martine Copyright 2022
198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

198 Pages 3 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This book explores the dynamics and challenges that underlie the ability of organizations to speak with one voice. Contributions by experienced and emerging scholars shed light on the nature and regulation of the communication processes whereby the many and diverse voices of a collective can unite, act, and speak as a distinct entity, thus contributing to its organizing. By focusing on... Read more

1. Voice: A Metaphor and Its Significance for Organizational Communication
Chantal Benoit-Barné and Thomas Martine

2. Authority-in-Action: How Voices Are Negotiated through Idiomatic Formulations during Organizational Downsizing
Helle Kryger Aggerholm and Birte Asmuß

3. "I’m just saying": Multivocal Organizing in a Community Health Initiative
Annis Grover Golden and Nicolas Bencherki

4. Finding the Voice of a Protest: Negotiating Authority Among the Multiplicity of Voices in a Pro-Refugee Demonstration
Salla-Maaria Laaksonen, Erna Bodström, and Camilla Haavisto

5. Amplifying Voices: Hip Hop as a Mode of Engagement for Community Organizing in the Context of the Black Lives Matter Movement
Clement Decault

6. Taking a Relational Approach to Rhetoric and Discourse: (Re)Considering the Voices of Recycling and Sustainability
erin daina mcclellan and Kat Davis

7. Tensional Dynamics in Discussions of Social Responsibility: Voice Mobilization, Concern Negotiation, and Organizational Boundaries Co-Creation
Alessandro Poroli

8. "Centering [Voices from] the Margins": Negotiating Intersectionality as a Consultative Framework
Khaoula Zoghlami

Conclusion: Speaking with One Voice Is a Specific Form of Multivocality
Thomas Martine and Chantal Benoit-Barné

Biography

Chantal Benoit-Barné is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal, Canada.

Thomas Martine is Associate Professor in the Communication & Culture Department at Audencia Business School, France.