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This article reviews the literature on computer-mediated communication (CMC) in organizations and as a medium for postsecondary education, and describes a teaching- and-research design that linked Boston MBA students with undergraduate organizational behavior students in Nova Scotia. The results of this CMC project are reviewed. Suggested future research on the topic is proposed.

AbstractAccounting for homogenous action in seemingly apparent heterogeneous organizations is a research question that persists across prominent organizational studies literatures, and which have become more persistent and pertinent as organizations have become more global and diverse. To address how differing forms of relatively homogeneous solutions to practical problems arise from otherwise heterogeneous organizations, we develop a rhetorical framework that depicts the role of topoi, often understood as a theme or motif or literary convention, in an organization's rhetorical activity and facilitates the profiling of organizations according to how members use topoi as modes of meaning creation. We assert 10 propositions reflecting how members invent and legitimize functional meaning and demonstrate how such meaning can direct the organization toward different discursive paths. Copyright © 2013 ASAC. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.