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Taylor, James R.

Professor Emeritus

Doctorate in Communication, University of Pennsylvania, 1978
Doctoral Studies, University of London, England, 1951
Master’s in English Studies, Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB, 1950
B. A., Honours, Cum Laude, 1949

Contact information

Fields of Specialty

• Communication theory
• Conversational and semiotic models of organisation
• Human and social integration of new technologies

Research Interests

• Study of new system implementation processes
• Discourse analysis, developing of a text / conversation model
• Adaptation of bureaucratic structures to the globalization of communications

Career

• Professor, Department of Communication, University of Montréal, 1970-1998; named Emeritus since 1999 and a "pioneer" of the University of Montréal in 2003.
• Founder and four times chair of the communication program at the University of Montréal, 1971-75, 1981-1982 (interim), 1991-1995, 2004 (interim).
• Director of a TV laboratory and television production lecturer, Master’s Program, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-71.
• Regional Supervisor, Public Affairs, radio and television, CBC, Ottawa , 1963-5.
• Director and chief director, radio and television, Public Affairs, CBC, Ottawa, 1956-63.

 Distinctions

• Top “Kurt Baschwitz Lecturer”, University of Amsterdam, 2003.
• "Outstanding Member”, Organizational Communication Division, International Communication Association, San Diego, 2003.
• "Southam Distinguished Lecturer,” Canadian Association of Communication, Laval University, 2001.
• "Book of the Year”, Speech Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, New Orleans, LA, 1994; 2000-2001, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, Chicago, 2000.
• "Article of the Year”, 2000-2001, National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, Chicago, 2001.
  "Top Paper”, International Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, Sydney, Australia, 1994; National Communication Association, Semiotics Interest Group, New York, 1998; National Communication Association, Organizational Communication Division, Chicago,1999.
• Organizational Communication Prize Lectureship, Arizona State University, 1998.
• Canadian Who's Who, 1987-2006

Influence

Board Member-at-large, International Communication Association, 2002-2005;
Chair Membership Committee, Chair Mentorship Prize Committee, nominated for the position of President-ElectSelect, International Communication Association, 2002.

Conference Lecturer

• “Keynote”, III International Conference on Discourse, Communication and Enterprise (DICOEN), Rio de Janeiro, 2005;
• International Symposium on Artefacts and Collectives; Situated Action and Activity Theory (ARTCO), Lyon, France, 2005;
• Communications and Technology Symposium 2005, University of Alberta, Edmonton, 2005;
• XIV Seminario Internacional de Sociología, San Juan, Argentina, 2001;
• Protagonistas de la Comunicación, Associación de los Directores de Comunicación, Fundación Ramon Areces, Madrid, Espagne, 2001;
• Kommission "Organization," Professors of Business Management Association, Lüneberg, Germany, 2001; International Workshop on the Language/Action Perspective (LAP'97, Theme: Communication Modeling), Faculty of Economics, University of Tilburg, Holland, 1997.

Invited Researcher

• Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, BC, January 2006;
• Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis (CREDEG), March 2006;
• Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail, March 2006;
• Universidade Lusófona, Lisbon, Portugal, April 2006;
• Universidade do Minho, Portugal, 2006;
• Universidade Federal de Uberlândia, Faculdade de Gestão e Negócios, Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração, Brazil, 2005;
• Seminário Comunicação Organizacional: o pensamento da Escola de Montreal, Escola de Comunicaçãoes e Artes, Universidade de São Paolo, Brazil, 2005;
• University of Tilburg, Pays Bas, 2003;
• South Denmark University (Odense), Department of Marketing, 2003;
• Communication Department, Faculty of Management Studies, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2001;
• University of Colorado at Boulder, Department of Communication and Interdisciplinary Telecommunication Program of the Faculty of Engineering, 1999;
• Faculty of Education, the Center for Activity Theory and Developmental Work Research, University of Helsinki, Finland, 1998;
• University of Utah Department of Communication, 1997;
• Management Summer School, Oxford University, England, 1997;
• University of Colorado, Boulder, 1996
• University of South Florida, Tampa, 1996, 1997;
• Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, 1995
• University of Tampere, Finland, 1995.

External Examiner

• Dissertations of Ans Steuten, Technical University, Delft, Holland, June 22, 1998;
• S. J. B. A. Hoppenbrouwers, University of Nijmegen (Faculty of Science, Mathematics and Informatics), Holland, 2003.

External Consultant

• The Ontario Ministry of Education and Training, evaluation of the viability of the new master’s program in communication, University of Ottawa, 2002;
• University of Sudbury, Ontario, for the development of the new communication program, 2001-02
• Department of Management Communication, Faculty of Management, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 2001;Centre d' Innovation en Technologie de l'Information (CITI), Laval QC, 1995.

Director

• Intervention Strategic Group in Organizational Communication, Communication Department, University of Montréal, 2002;
• Communication Section, French Canadian Association for Science Advancement (ACFAS),1991-92.

Advisor

Interdisciplinary Research Centre on Emerging Technologies and Multimedia (CITÉ),University of Montréal, 2001-2004;

Member, Planning Committee - International Workshops on the Language/Action Perspective on Communication Modeling (LAP) conferences

• Stockholm, Sweden, June, 1998;
• Copenhagen, Denmark, September, 1999;
• Aachen, Germany, September, 2000;
• Montreal, July, 2001;
• Delft, Netherlands, June, 2002;
• Tilburg, Netherlands, June, 2003,
• New Orleans, Ma1 2004,Lapland, Sweeden, 2005.

Member

• OUREPO (“Ouvroir des Recherches Potentielles”), Université de Montréal, 2004-2006.
• Committee for scholarship application evaluations, “Formation de chercheurs et aide à la recherche”, Government of Québec, 1999.
• Sub-commission, “Communication, Information and Informatics,” Canadian UNESCO Commission, 1992-1995.
• Management Council, Social Sciences Federation of Canada (SSFC), 1992-94.
• Promotion Committee, Faculty of Arts and Science, Université de Montréal, 1988-1991.
• Interuniversity Liaison Committee (Concordia, UQÀM, Université de Montréal) for the Development and Administration of the New Doctorate in Communication, 1984-91

Member, Editorial council

• Communication Theory, 1988-2006;
• Management Communication Journal, 1997-2005;
• Organisation et Communication, (Université de Bordeaux, France), 1998-2005,
• The Canadian Journal of Communication, 1988-2005.

President

Canadian Association of Communication, 1992-93.

Invited Editor

For the scientific journals:

• Communication/Information, (Laval University),
• The Canadian Journal of Communication, 1990.

Publications (1995-2006 only)

Volumes

Cooren, F., Taylor , J. R. & Van Every, E. J., eds. (2006). Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations into the dynamic of text and conversation . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.Taylor , J. R., C. Groleau, L. Heaton, E.J. Van Every. (2001). The computerization ofwork: A communication perspective . Thousand Oaks CA : Sage.

Taylor , J. R. & E.J. Van Every (2000). The emergent organization: Communication as its site and surface . Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Scientific Articles

Taylor, J. R. (in press). Dialogue? Or Trialogue? Is inter-subjectivity correlated with anti-subjectivity? : Forum response. Management Communication Quarterly .

Taylor, J. R. (2005). In praise of ambiguity: Forum response. Management Communication     Quarterly, 19(2) .

Robichaud, D., Giroux, H., & Taylor, J.R. (2004). The meta-conversation: The recursive property of language as the key to organizing. Academy of Management Review , 29 (4), 1-18. (Special issue on language and organization, edited by J. Ford and D. Boje)Taylor, J. R., & Robichaud, D., (2004). Finding the organization in the communication: Discourse as action and sensemaking, Organization , 11 (3), May 2004, 395-413.

Taylor, J. R. (2004). Les nouvelles technologies des médias et la transformation des sociétés hypercomplexes: Perspectives en recherche en communication organisationnelle, L'autre forum, 8 (2), 15-19.

Taylor, J. R. (2004). Organizational communication: Is it a discipline? Tijdschrift voor Communicatiewetenschap (Dutch Journal of Communication), 32 (1), 3-10..

Heaton, L., & Taylor, J. R. (2002). Knowledge management and professional work: A communication perspective on the knowledge-based organization. Management Communication Quarterly , 16 (2), 210-236.Giroux, H. & Taylor, J. R. (2002). The justification of knowledge: Tracking the translations of quality. Management Learning, 33 (4), 497-517. (Special issue on knowledge based perspectives on organization, edited by H. Tsoukas).

Taylor, J. R. (2001). Vivir en una sociedad de innovación. Sociedade e Cultura 3, Cadernos de Noroeste , University of Braga , Portugal , 21-34.

Taylor, J. R. (2001). Toward a theory of imbrication and organizational communication. American Journal of Semiotics , 17 (2), 1-29.

Taylor, J. R. (2001). The intellectual and society: Reflections on Harold Innis's Minerva's Owl . Canadian Journal of Communication, 26 (3), 327-350.

Taylor, J. R. (2001). The rational organization re-evaluated. Communication Theory . 11 (2),., 137-177. Reprinted in E. Kahle, ed., Organisatorische Kommunikation, Veränderung, Vertantwortung, Corporate Governance - Aktuelle Themen der Organisationstheorie . Hamburg , Germany . Gabler Press. Co-winner of the 2001 NCA Organizational Communication Division award for "Best Article of the Year."

Taylor, J. R. (2000). What is an organization? Electronic Journal of Communication/ La Revue Électronique de Communication . www.cios.org/www.ejc/v10n200.htm.
Taylor, J.R. (2000). Is there a “Canadian” approach to the study of organizational communication?. Canadian Journal of Communication . 25 (1), 145-174.

Taylor, J. R. (2000). Apples and orangutangs: the worldviews of organizational communication. Saison Mauve , 3 (1), 45-64.Taylor, J.R. (1999). The other side of rationality: Socially distributed cognition. Manage­ment Communication Quarterly , 13 (2), 317-326. This is a revised version of the paper that won the 1998 Arizona State University lecture competition in organizational communi­ca­tion.

Giroux, H. & J. R. Taylor. (1999). L'évolution du discours sur la qualité: D'une traduction à l'autre. Communication et organization (J.-P. Callegari, ed.), 15 (spring). 39-68.

Rogers, P. S., Taylor, J. R. & Finn, T. A. (1999). “A case of telecommunicateions (mis)management” case analyses, Management Communication Quarterly , 12 (4), 580-599.

Taylor, J. R. (1999). What is "organizational communication"?: Communication as a dialogic of text and conversation. The Communication Review , 3 (1-2), 21-63. (Special issue devoted to the work of the research in organizational communication at the University of Montreal .)Cooren, F., & Taylor, J. R. (1999). The procedural and rhetorical modes of the organizing dimension of communication: Discursive analysis of a Parliamentary Commission. The Communication Review , 3 (1,2), 65-101.

Van Every, E. J. & Taylor, J. R. (1998). Modeling the organization as a system of communication activity: A dialogue about the language/action perspective. Management Communication Quarterly , 12 (1), 127-146.

Cooren, F. & J.R. Taylor. (1997). Organization as an effect of mediation: Redefin­ing the link between organization and communication. Communication Theory , 7 , 219-259.

Taylor, J. R.& Cooren, F. (1997). What makes com­mu­ni­ca­tion "or­ga­ni­za­tion­al"? How the many voices of the organization become the one voice of an or­ga­ni­za­tion. Journal of Prag­ma­tics. 27 , 409-438.

Taylor, J. R. & Lerner, L. (1996). Making sense of sensemaking: How managers con­struct their or­ga­ni­za­tion through their talk. Studies in Culture, Or­ga­ni­za­tions and Societies . 2 , 257-286.

Groleau, C. & Taylor, J. R. (1996). Toward a subject-oriented world­view of in­for­mation. Canadian Journal of Communication , special issue on "Com­mu­ni­ca­tion and the Economy" (R. Babe, University of Ottawa , ed.), 21 , 243-265.

Taylor, J. R., Cooren, F., Giroux, N. & Robichaud, D. (1996). The com­mu­ni­ca­tion­al basis of or­ga­ni­za­tion: Between the con­ver­sation and the text. Com­mu­ni­ca­tion Theory , 6 (1), 1-39.

Taylor, J.R. (1995). Shifting from a heteronomous to an auto­no­mous world­view of or­ga­ni­za­tion­al communication: Com­mu­ni­ca­tion the­ory on the cusp. Communication Theory ,5( 1), 1-35.

Book Sections

Taylor, J. R. (in press). Organizing from the bottom up: Reflections on the constitution of organization in communication. In A. Nicotera & L. Putnam.,eds., Communication in action: The communicative constitution of organization and its implications for theory, research, and practice , Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Taylor, J. R., Cooren, F. & Van Every, E. J. (2006). Introduction. In F. Cooren, J. R. Taylor & E.J. Van Every, eds, Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations of the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahway , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Katambwe, J. M. & Taylor, J. R. (2006). Modes of organizational integration. In F. Cooren, J. R.Taylor & E.J. Van Every, eds, Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations of the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahway , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Saludadez, J. & Taylor, J. R. (2006). The structuring of collaborative research networks in the stories researchers tell. In F. Cooren, J. R. Taylor & E.J. Van Every, eds, Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations of the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahway , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Taylor, J. R. & Cooren, F. (2006). Making worldview sense: And paying retrospective homage to Algirdas Greimas. In F. Cooren, J. R. Taylor & E.J. Van Every, eds, Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations of the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahway , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Taylor, J. R. (2006). Coorientation theory: A conceptual framework. In F. Cooren, J. R. Taylor & E.J.Van Every, eds, Communication as organizing: Empirical explorations of the dynamic of text and conversation. Mahway , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum.

Taylor, J. R., & Robichaud, D. (2006). Management as meta-conversation: The search for closure. In F. Cooren & L. Putnam, eds., Interacting and organizing: Analyses of a board meeting (provisional title), Mahwah , NJ : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Taylor, J. R. & Giroux, H. (2005). The role of language in self-organizing systems. In G. Barnett & R. Houston, eds., Self-organizing systems (pp. 127-163). New York : Hampton Press.

Taylor, J. R. (2006). Communication as organizing. In G. J. Shepherd, J. St. John & T. Striphas, Communication as … : Stances on theory . Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage.

Taylor, J. R. (2005). Engaging organization through worldview. In S. May & D. Mumby, eds.,Engaging organizational communication theory and perspectives: Multiple perspectives (pp. 197-221). Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage.

Taylor, J. R. (2004). Dialogue as the search for sustainable organizational communication. In R. Anderson, L. Baxter & K. Cissna, eds., Dialogue (pp. 125-140), Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage.

Zorn, T. & Taylor, J.R. (2004). Knowledge management. In Key issues in organisational communication (ed., D. Tourish & O. Hargie) (pp. 96-112). London : Routledge.
Taylor, J. R. (2000). A common ground, common grounds - or footbridges? In S. R. Corman & M. S. Poole, eds., Finding the common ground (pp. 190-199). New York : Guildford publications.

Taylor, J. R., Flanagin, A., Seibold, D. & Cheney, G. (2000). Organizational communication research: Key moments, central concerns, and future challenges. In Communication Yearbook (W.B. Gudykunst, ed.) , vol. 24, (pp.100-138). Thousand Oaks , CA : Sage.

Cooren, F. & Taylor, J. R. (2000). Association and dissociation in an ecological controversy: The Great Whale case. In N. W. Coppola & W. Karis, eds., Connections and directions: Technical communication, deliberative rhetoric, and environmental discourse (pp. 171-190). Part of the series Comtemporary Studies in Technical Communication. Norwood , NJ : Ablex.

Taylor, J.R., G. Gurd & T. Bardini. (1997). The world­views of cooperative work. In G. Bowker, L. Gasser, S. L. Star & W. Turner, eds., Social science research, technical systems and cooperative work (pp. 379-413). Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Taylor, J.R., & G. Gurd. (1996). Contrasting perspectives on non-positivist com­mu­ni­cation research. In L. Thayer, ed., Organization <---> Com­mu­ni­cation: Emerging perspectives III (pp. 32-73) . Norwood : NJ: Ablex,.

Giroux, N. & J. R. Taylor. (1995). Le changement par la con­ver­sation stra­té­gi­que. In A. Noël, ed., Perspectives en man­age­ment stratégique . Paris : Economica.

Conference Proceedings and Acts

Taylor, J. R. (2002). Imbrication and organization. Proceedings of the Seventh International Workshop on the Language-Action Perspective on Communication Modeling (LAP 2002), Delft , The Netherlands , June 11-12, pp. 158-169.

Taylor, J. R. (2001). Vivir en una sociedad de innovación. Actas del XIV Seminario Internacional de Sociología (Proceedings of the XIV International Seminar of Sociology), San Juan , Argentina . (Theme: Democracía y participación en las nuevas sociedades de la información).

Taylor, J.R. (2001). The rational organization reconsidered. Proceedings of the Symposium of the 2001 Workshop der Kommission Organisation des Verbandes der Hochschullehrer für Betriebswirtschaft , E. Kahle, ed , Lueneburg, Germany.

Taylor, J.R. (1998). The limits of rationality: A semiotic reinterpretation of the concept of ‘speech act'. Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Communication Modeling , Stockholm , Sweden , June 24-26, 35-46.

Giroux, H., J.R. Taylor & F. Cooren. (1998). Memes and the persistence of organizational structures. Proceedings of the Symposium on Memetics , 15th International Congress on Cybernetics, Namur , Belgium , August 24-28.

Taylor, J.R. (1997). Self-organizing communication as an interplay of conversation and text, Proceedings of the Alta Conference on Communication and Self-organizing systems , August 14-17, Alta, Utah.

Taylor, J. R., Cooren, F., Giroux, H. & Robichaud, D. (1996). Are organization and communication equivalent?. Collected papers of the con­ference and seminar on Or­ga­ni­za­tional Communication and Change: Challenges in the Next Cen­tury , sponsored by the Communication Research Center , Department of Speech Com­mu­ni­ca­tion, Southwest Texas State University , Austin TX, February 11-13, 1996. (8)1-(8)18.

Taylor, J. R. (1995). Les défis du management public à l'ère de l'information. Trans­ac­tions of the Royal Society of Canada 1994 , Sixth Series, Volume V, 31-57.
Taylor, J. R. (1995). L'informatisation du travail et le «para­doxe de la pro­duc­tivité». Actes de l'Association des économistes québecois (ASDEQ) .

Doctoral Thesis Supervision

Katambwe, Joël Mulamba. La nature du lien organisationnel: Une étude de cas selon une approche discursive . 2004.
Dr. Katambwe is now an associate professor and the interm director of the communication program at the Université du Québec à Trois-Rivières (UQTR), Trois-Rivières, Québec.
Giroux, Hélène. L'évolution du discours sur la gestion de la qualité: Analyse des mécanismes et des conditions du passage d'une rhétorique rationnelle à une rhétorique normative . 2000.
Dr. Giroux is now an associate professor at HEC-Montréal (Hautes Études Commerciales).

Harvey, Martine. Analyse comparative des pratiques de deux (2) groupes de releveurs de compteurs (québécois et américains) soumis à la surveillance sur un territoire balisé . Université de Montréal. 1998.
Dr. Harvey is now an assistant professor at the State University of Minnesota.

Robichaud, Daniel. Au delà de l'action et de la structure: Traduction, réseaux d'actants et narrativité dans un processus de discussion publique. Université de Montréal. 1998.
Dr. Robichaud is now an associate professor at the Université de Montréal.

Heaton, Lorna. The impact of culture on computer design and implementation: The CSCW case . Université de Montréal. 1997.
Dr. Heaton is now an assistant professor at the Université de Montréal.

Lerner, Loren. Metaphors of governance: An analysis of discourse themes and patterns . Université de Montréal. 1996 .
Dr. Lerner is now a Full Professor at Concordia University in Montréal.

Cooren, François. Proposition d'une grille d'analyse des actes de langage pour l'étude de la construction et du changement de la réalité organisationnelle . Université de Montréal. 1995.
Dr. Cooren is now a full professor and the chair of the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal.

De Medeiros, Narcisse. Culture sanitaire et décodage de messages télévisés de santé chez les Fon du Sud-Bénin. Université de Montréal. 1994.
Dr. de Medeiros is now the communications director for West and Central Africa, UNICEF, Dakar, Sénégal.

Gurd, Geoffrey. Computerization as the intersection of two logics: A hospital case study . Université de Montréal. 1994.
Dr. Gurd is now general director of a health ministry division for the Canadian government in Ottawa .

Laramée, Alain. Un cadre de référence pour la planification de la com­mu­ni­cation au service de l'auto-développement régional du Québec . Université de Montréal. 1987.
Dr. Laramée is now a professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal.

Aréna, Franck. Structures de développement de la communication non-verbale chez les enfants . Université de Montréal. 1979.

Parent, Richard. Les effets de la pression de temps sur la solution de problèmes dans un groupe en collaboration. Université de Montréal. 1979.

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