Contributed by business and management researchers from North America, Europe, Israel, and Australia, the eight articles in this volume explore the relationship between different modes of communication in the emergence, diffusion, maintenance, and challenge of social meanings and institutions, focusing on organizations and industries. They examine the use of multiple modes of communication to socially construct the rational myth of industrialization in the French construction sector after World War II, and the roles of visual and verbal communication in this process; the institutional persistence of a tradition in the Bordeaux wine community in France and the role of community organizations; the visual identity of universities through logos to create visual identities; how organizational actors use images to define a contested industry, namely the use of words and images to reframe the Canadian oil sands industry; fashion companies’ multimodal presentation, through visuals and verbal text, of their organizational identity in job advertisements; how identity elements are referenced in verbal and visual modes of meaning making and how they interrelate with each other and channels of communication, through the example of whisky distilleries; and the identity and meaning created by different groups of professionals to construct city identity.

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