Micro/Meso/Macrolevels of Analysis

Joshua B Barbour

doi:10.1002/9781118955567.wbieoc140

Micro/Meso/Macrolevels of Analysis

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Understanding the interplay between micro-, meso-, and macrolevels of analysis is a fundamental problematic of organizational communication scholarship. These terms are typically used to locate the researchers' analytical focus (e.g., on individuals, teams, organizations) relative to superordinate contextual phenomena and subordinate compositional phenomena. A simultaneous focus on multiple levels of analysis or on the influence of one on another has important conceptual and methodological implications. Organizational communication scholarship offers multiple theoretical and analytical approaches to the multilevel study of micro- meso-, and macro-phenomena.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	The International Encyclopedia of Organizational Communication
Editors	Craig R. Scott, James R. Barker, Timothy Kuhn, Joann Keyton, Paaige K. Turner, Laurie K. Lewis
Publisher	Wiley
Pages	1-15
ISBN (Electronic)	9781118955567
ISBN (Print)	9781118955604
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/9781118955567.wbieoc140
State	Published - Mar 8 2017
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

communication research methods
organizational theory
network analysis
multilevel analysis
levels of analysis
discourse analysis
communication theory

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