Language and Communication at Work

Francois Cooren, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, Universite de Montreal, Canada,Eero Vaara, Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland,Ann Langley, Professor of Management, HEC Montreal,Haridimos Tsoukas, Professor of Strategic Management; Professor of Organization Studies, University of Cyprus; Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

Francois Cooren is Professor and chair of the Department of Communication at the Universite de Montreal, Canada. He is past president of the International Communication Association (ICA, 2010-2011) and the current president of the International Association for Dialogue Analysis (IADA, 2012-2014). His research interests lies in organizational communication, language and social interaction, communication theory and pragmatics. He has published seven books (both as an author and editor), close to 50 articles in international peer-reviewed journals and more than twenty book chapters.

Eero Vaara is Professor of Management and Organization at Hanken School of Economics in Helsinki, Finland. He is a permanent Visiting Professor at EMLYON Business School, France, a Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Lancaster University, UK, and an Adjunct Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Denmark. His research interests focus on organizational and institutional change, strategic practices and processes, multinational corporations and globalization, management education, and methodological issues in organization and management research. He has worked especially on discursive and narrative approaches. His work has been published in leading journals and several books.

Ann Langley is professor of management at HEC Montreal and Canada research chair in strategic management in pluralistic settings. Her research focuses on strategic change, leadership, innovation and the use of management tools in complex organizations with an emphasis on processual research approaches. She has published over 50 articles and two books.


Haridimos Tsoukas is the Columbia Ship Management Professor of Strategic Management at the University of Cyprus, Cyprus and a Professor of Organization Studies at Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK. He has published widely in several leading academic journals and was the Editor-in-Chief of Organization Studies (2003-2008). He is the editor (with Christian Knudsen) of The Oxford Handbook of Organization Theory (Oxford University Press, 2003). He has also edited Organizations as Knowledge Systems, Palgrave Macmillan, 2004 (with N. Mylonopoulos) and Managing the Future: Foresight in the Knowledge Economy, Blackwell, 2004 (with J. Shepherd). His book Complex Knowledge: Studies in Organizational Epistemology was published by Oxford University Press in 2005. He is also the author of the book If Aristotle were a CEO (in Greek, Kastaniotis, 2005, 2nd edition).

Kjersti Bjørkeng, Senior Researcher, SINTEF Technology and Society.
David M. Boje, Professor of Storytelling, Distinguished University Professor, and Bill Daniels Ethics Fellow in Management Department, New Mexico State University.
Nicholas R. Burk, doctoral student in organizational communication, the University of Colorado Boulder.
Arne Carlsen, Associate Professor, BI Norwegian School of Business.
François Cooren, Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication, the Université de Montréal, Canada.
Bertrand Fauré, Associate Professor of Organizational Communication, the University Toulouse.
Maxim Ganzin, PhD student, the University of Alberta School of Business.
Robert P. Gephart, Jr., Professor of Strategic Management and Organization, the University of Alberta School of Business.
Emmanouil Gkeredakis, Postdoctoral Researcher, the Stern School of Business, New York University and Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
Alan Gilchrist, Lecturer in Marketing, the Department of Marketing, Lancaster
University Management School.
Katharina Hohmann, research assistant and PhD student, the Institute of Marketing and Communication Management, the Faculty of Communication Sciences, University of Lugano (USI).
William Housley, Reader in Sociology, the Cardiff School of Social Sciences, Cardiff University.
Timothy Kuhn, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, the University of Colorado Boulder.
Ann Langley, Professor of Management, HEC Montréal and Canada Research Chair in Strategic Management in Pluralistic Settings.
Peter Lenney, Senior Fellow of the Foundation for Management Education and Lecturer, Lancaster University Management School.
Philippe Lorino, Professor of Management Control, ESSEC Business School, Paris.
Jeanne Mengis, Senior Assistant Professor, the Faculty of Communication Sciences, the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland and Associate Fellow, Warwick Business School, UK.
Frank Mueller, Chair in Strategy, the Newcastle University Business School.
Geneviève Musca, Associate Professor in Management and Organization, University Paris Ouest Nanterre La Defense (France).
Davide Nicolini, Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School.
Carl Rhodes, Professor of Management, the University of Leicester.
Linda Rouleau, Professor, HEC Montreal.
Rohny Saylors, Ph.D. Student, New Mexico State University.
Florian Schulz, Post-Doctoral Scholar and counselling psychologist, the University of Sankt Gallen.
Chris Steyaert, Professor for Organizational Psychology, the University of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland.
Roy Suddaby, the Eldon Foote Chair of Law and Society, the Alberta School of Business, University of Alberta.
Jacky Swan, Professor, Organizational Behaviour, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick.
James R. Taylor, Emeritus Professor, Université de Montréal.
Haridimos Tsoukas, Columbia Ship Management Chair in Strategic Management, the University of Cyprus, Cyprus, and Professor of Organization Studies, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick, UK.
Eero Vaara, Professor of Management and Organization, Hanken School of Economics, Helsinki, Finland.
Andrea Whittle, Professor of Management and Organisation Studies, Newcastle University Business School.
Ruth Wodak, Distinguished Professor and Chair of Discourse Studies, Lancaster University.