Boris H.J.M. Brummans
- Professeur titulaire
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Faculté des arts et des sciences - Département de communication
Marie-Victorin, room A-420
Profile
Research expertise
Boris H. J. M. Brummans (PhD, Texas A&M University, 2004) is a Professor in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal in Canada. His research interests include agency, mindful organizing, organizational communication, organizational ethnography, process philosophy, and qualitative inquiry. He has contributed chapters to several edited books and his articles appear in peer-reviewed journals such as Academy of Management Review, Communication Monographs, Human Relations, Information, Communication & Society, Management Communication Quarterly, Organization Studies, and Qualitative Inquiry. His edited volume, The Agency of Organizing (Routledge), received the 2018 Outstanding Edited Book Award from the National Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division, and he co-edited the first Sage Handbook of Qualitative Research in Organizational Communication, which received the same award in 2024. From 2015 to 2019, he served as an Associate Editor of Management Communication Quarterly. Moreover, he served as Chair of the International Communication Association’s Organizational Communication Division from 2022 to 2024.
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Teaching
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Game of Thrones, Game of Body Practices : a CCO study of authority in a traditional chinese martial arts organization
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Prendre soin du consentement : tisser l’éthique dans le design d’un agent conversationnel
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
Étude de l'improvisation dans le cadre d'une collaboration interprofessionnelle selon une perspective de sensemaking : le cas d'une équipe d'événementiel
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Framing body changes in patient-medical team conversations during treatment trajectories in surgical head and neck oncology
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
The institutionalization of an area of research through published and public discourse : t he case of CCO scholarship
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
L’accomplissement de l’autorité d’un leader du développement personnel dans une perspective communicationnelle
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Une étude communicationnelle de l’expérience émotionnelle de travailleurs expatriés à Taïwan
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
La face et la figuration: une analyse interactionnelle tirée de l’instruction de base des Forces canadiennes
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
La négociation de l’ordre au sein des interactions entre les membres d’une équipe multidisciplinaire
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Le rôle des émotions dans le processus de sensemaking : l’analyse communicationnelle de récits d’expériences de personnes travaillant dans une résidence pour personnes âgées
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Towards a communicative understanding of organizational change : Koumbit's change process
Cycle : Doctoral
Grade : Ph. D.
La construction identitaire d'une ONG par la communication : le cas de Médecins sans frontières
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Conflict management behaviors in a management meeting : a conversation analytic study
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
La construction interactionnelle de l'identité d'expert : une étude d'un débat télévisé
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Faire du sens de l'acculturation organisationnelle et nationale : une étude d'entretiens exploratoires des immigrants professionnels de l'Argentine à Montréal, Québec
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
L'identification organisationnelle en contexte interculturel : le cas de l'UNESCO
Cycle : Master's
Grade : M. Sc.
Projects
Research projects
Entrepreneuring as Relational Process: Tracing the Trajectories of Entrepreneurial Projects
Mediation as the Art of Ventriloquism: A Communication Perspective
Tzu Chi’s Mindful Organizing in the Face of Impermanence: A Naturalistic Study of the Management of a Buddhist Non-profit Organization through Everyday Communication
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Disciplines
- Communication
Areas of expertise
- Organizational communication