Between horses: An ethnographic study of communication and organizational culture at a harness racetrack

"Through qualitative field methods this case study explores the backstretch community of a harness racetrack to discover how organizational culture is constituted through communication. The study seeks to refine and extend the notion of ""organizational communication as cultural performance"" (Pacanowsky & O'Donnell-Trujillo, 1983) by pursuing questions such as What types of communicative performances occur in organizations? How do different contexts affect communicative performances? and How might organizational culture best be ""captured"" or analyzed?"

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2011

Author dc:creator

• Helmer, James Edward

Contributors dc:contributor

• Husband, Robert L.

• Speech Communication

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 1989 Helmer, James Edward

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

AAI8916260
(UMI)AAI8916260

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21928