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- Title
Refreshing the positive: bridging positive organizational communication and critical scholarship with Buddhist philosophies.
- Authors
Leach, Rebecca B; Tracy, Sarah J; Wong, Terrie
- Abstract
This article makes a case for the productive synergy between positive organizational communication scholarship (POCS) and critical scholarship, which have been often viewed as incompatible. The article opens with an overview of POCS and its key critiques from critical audiences, which allows us to unpack the metatheoretical assumptions driving each research tradition. Next, the article discusses the limits of relying only on a Eurocentric definition of the "positive." Notably, this article delineates how Buddhist philosophies refresh our understanding of the "positive" and challenge existing ways of thinking and problem-solving in organizational communication. We apply the Buddhist-inspired people-conditions-goals framework to a case study on the 2022 University of California system strikes.
- Subjects
UNIVERSITY of California, San Francisco; BUDDHIST philosophy; SCHOLARLY communication; ORGANIZATIONAL communication; SCHOLARLY method; EUROCENTRISM
- Publication
Communication Theory (1050-3293), 2024, Vol 34, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
1050-3293
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ct/qtad015