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strategic ambiguity: a standalone construct

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Organizational communication

the deliberate use of ambiguous messages by organizations and leaders to promote unified diversity, preserve privileged positions and allow deniability.

In organizational communication, strategic ambiguity refers to the deliberate use of ambiguous messages by organizations and leaders to promote unified diversity, preserve privileged positions and allow deniability. This meaning comes from Eisenberg (1984) in Communication Monographs.[1]

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ambiguity5 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, five constructs diversity3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructs positional faithfulness1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone construct

References

Eisenberg, E. M. (1984). Ambiguity as strategy in organizational communication. Communication Monographs, 51(3), 227-242. https://doi.org/10.1080/03637758409390197

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