...Monica Nadegger; Monica Porzionato Purpose This article proposes diffractive vignettes as a new analytical approach that can sensitize organizational communication research to extra/linguistic forces in the communicative constitution of major societal challenges such as the climate crisis...

... a performance in which the researcher is fully immersed, and explores the implications of the processual nature of doing research. Design/methodology/approach The paper takes use of vignettes; short stories of research in action, told by different researchers that are analyzed to reveal the richness...