The Situated Organization explores recent research in organizational communication‎,‎ emphasizing the organization as constructed in and emerging out of communication practices‎.‎ Working from the tradition of the Montreal School in its approach‎,‎ it focuses not only on how an organization‎'‎s members understand the purposes of the organization through communication‎,‎ but also on how they realize and recognize the organization itself as they work within it‎.‎ The text breaks through with an alternative viewpoint to the currently popular idea of ‎'‎organization‎-as‎-network‎,‎‎'‎ viewing organization instead as a configuration of agencies‎,‎ and their fields of practice‎.‎ It serves as an original‎,‎ comprehensive‎,‎ and well‎-written text‎,‎ elaborated by case studies that make the theory come to life‎.‎ The substantial ideas and insights are presented in a deep and meaningful way while remaining comprehensible for student readers‎.‎ This text has been developed for students at all levels of study in organizational communication‎,‎ who need a systematic introduction to conducting empirical field research‎.‎ It will serve as an invaluable sourcebook in planning and conducting research‎.‎