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Communicating identity: Communication processes in the development of group identity through congregational worship rituals.
(2002)
How does communication work in the process of group identity creation and maintenance? This dissertation uses a social construction of reality orientation to seek the verbal, nonverbal, and ritual communication elements ...
Communicated values as indicators of organizational identity: An examination of the United Church of God, an International Association's first five years.
(2000)
From these conclusions, recommendations are made first to the organization in light of the results, and second to communication scientists committed to extending organizational identity research. The three recommendations ...
Adaptation versus fusion theory in the experience of returned LDS missionaries.
(2002)
This dissertation investigates the outcomes of theory-making, as well as many underlying assumptions surrounding intercultural contact. It does this by examining two competing intercultural theories, Kim's Adaptation Theory ...