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Case Study: Communicative Identity Construction at South East Youth Association

Simionides, Peter
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459956607

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2016, Master of Arts (MA), Bowling Green State University, Media and Communication.
This study examines the communicative identity of the South East Youth Association (SEYA) during a time of mission and funding transition. The study examines identity construction as defined by the linguistic turn comparing the fluid identity discussed in organizational communication literature to nonprofits’ typically stable identities, emerging from their mission statements and core values. The Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO) allows communication to be understood not as a peripheral aspect of organizing, but as the central phenomena to organizing. The adoption of a CCO lens leads this study to build on the principle that communication and organizational identity are one in the same. This study asks how SEYA’s communication patterns impacted how successfully they were able to fulfill their mission during this time of change. Interviews conducted with key organizational stake holders reveal not only a capacity and willingness to evaluate their communication patterns and messages, which provides background information on the transition, but also how the organization’s identity is both constituted and challenged by these communication practices. The SEYA transition unfolds by virtue of the multilayered and complex phenomena revealed in the interviews, a construct that merits further study. Qualitative analysis of SEYA’s communication determined that the distress attending their recent transition resulted from several gaps in communication and mission application, exacerbated by extra-communication that developed outside the immediate control of the organization.
Tom Mascaro, PH.D. (Advisor)
John Dowd, PH.D. (Committee Member)
Clayton Rosati, PH.D. (Committee Member)
266 p.
Communication
CCO; Nonprofit; Communicative Constitution of Organizations; Organizational Communication; Mission; Critical Public Relations

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  • Simionides, P. (2016). Case Study: Communicative Identity Construction at South East Youth Association [Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459956607

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Simionides, Peter. Case Study: Communicative Identity Construction at South East Youth Association. 2016. Bowling Green State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459956607.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Simionides, Peter. "Case Study: Communicative Identity Construction at South East Youth Association." Master's thesis, Bowling Green State University, 2016. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1459956607

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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