2005/06/01 by Shiv Ganesh, Heather Zoller, Heather M. Zoller +1
Business, Management and Accounting · #Management and Organizational Studies
paper · doi:10.1080/03637750500111872
openalex publication_date 2005/06/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/29
This essay addresses the need for organizational communication scholarship to come to terms with the contested nature of globalization through analyses of collective resistance. We argue that organizational communication has largely situated the study of resistance at the level of the individual, and characterized it as an element of micro-politics located within organizational boundaries. Thus, resistance has been considered in localized, interpersonal terms, without full appreciation of its political and ideological significance. This essay builds a case for reconsidering resistance in order to study “globalization from below” and highlights protest movements as exemplars of transformative resistance. Finally, the essay advances a study of organizational communication with expanded disciplinary engagement with respect to globalization.