His research centres on the organizing properties of communication as displayed in high reliability organizations, coalitions [Page xiii]and board meetings. Recent publications include two articles ‘Translation and articulation in the organization of coalitions: The Great Whale River Case’ (2001, Communication Theory) and ‘Implicatures: A schematic approach’ (2002, Journal of Pragmatics) and a book, The Organizing Property of Communication (John Benjamins, 2000). He is currently editing two books titled Interacting and Organizing: Analyses of a Board Meeting and Communication as Organizing: Practical Approaches to Research into the Dynamic of Text and Conversation (with James R. Taylor and Elizabeth Van Every). He is also the recipient of the 2002 International Communication Association Young Scholar Award.