Since 1993 we have published five books on organizational communication, which form part of a developing theoretical perspective, sometimes characterized as "The Montreal School". The volumes have received favourable reviews from within both the field of organizational communication and related disciplines, and have sold internationally.

	Our latest book, co-authored with Université de Montréal colleague, François Cooren is entitled Communication as organizing: Empirical and theoretical explorations in the dynamic of text and conversation. it was awarded the best (edited) book prize in the Organizational Communication division, National Communication Association annual meeting, held in San Antonio, Texas, November, 2006. The book is available from the publisher, Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates.
	Perhaps our best known book is The Emergent Organization: Communication as its Site and Surface (2000), also published by Lawrence Erlbaum & Associates. In it we raise the question: What is organization?" arguing that it is through communication and the modality of language that the organization can be both local and global. Organization emerges in the mix of textual and conversational communicative acts that together construct organizational identity.
	Jim's first foray into working out in book form a rationale for a communication theory of organization was Rethinking the Theory of Organizational Communication: How to Read an Organization (1993), Ablex Publishing. Based on findings from his extensive experience and research into the management of large scale organizations, he argued for a new paradigm of organization grounded in communication. The organization is "authored", he suggested, and a communication analysis must develop ways to read it. The book is out of print, but available in libraries.
	Very much related to our explorations of organizational process, we have participated in studies of the implementation of communication technology in both the private and public spheres. Since the late 1980s, organizations have invested massively and rapidly in technological ventures. Yet as one study after another has demonstrated, the results have often failed to live up to expectations, prompting users to ask why the technology does not work the way it was supposed to. In The Vulnerable Fortress (1993) published by University of Toronto Press we suggested that this failure may have had something to do with the nature of bureaucratic organization itself, where established modes of administration and managerial authority are threatened by information and communication technologies. Rather than acting as a buttress, the technologies become both an opportunity and a trap, and if such is the case, require us to radically rethink our ideas about management and how it works.
	Also exploring the relation between communication technology and organization, The Computerization of Work , was co-authored with Université de Montréal colleagues Groleau and Heaton and published in 2001 by Sage It too addresses the question of why the results of the computerization of organizational communication processes have so often been disappointing. A communicational explanation is developed, with reference to theories of sensemaking and agency and examples from organizational field studies.