Book Review

Abstract

Part I: Introduction. Corman, The Need for Common Ground. Part II: Three Essays. Cheney, interpreting Interpretive Research: Toward Perspectivism without Relativism. Miller, Common Ground from the Post-Positivist Perspective: From Straw Person Argument to Collaborative Coexistence. Mumby, Common Ground from the Critical Perspective: Overcoming Binary Oppositions. Part III: Commentary. Barnett, Commentary on Common Ground in Organizational Communication. Conrad, On the Destiny of Acceptance Frames: Organizational Communication Discourse. Deetz, The A Priori of the Communication Community and the Hope for Solving Real Problems. Eisenberg, The Kindness of Strangers: Hospitality in Organizational Communication Scholarship. Fairhurst, Skirmishes in the Review Process. Jackson, Disciplinary Controversies and Interdisciplinary Consequences. Krizek, A Case for a Different Kind of Dialogue: The After Action Review. Krone, Becoming Deeply Multipersonal: Commentary on Finding Common Ground in Organizational Communication Research. McPhee, Paradigm Critique: How to See Our Task as a Common One, and How to Work on It. Scott, Lewis, Challenges for the Professional Newcomer in Doing Common Ground Research. Seibold, Flanagin, Potential Sites for Building Common Ground Across Metatheoretical Perspectives on Organizational Communication. Stohl, Pedagogy and Paradigms: The Search for Common Ground. Taylor, A Common Ground, Common Grounds, or Footbridges? Trethewey, The Shifting Common Ground: Feminism(s), Organizational Communication, and Productive Paradigmatic Tensions. Part IV: Afterword. Poole, Lynch, Reflections on Finding Common Ground.