ABSTRACT
MORE than 20 years ago, George Kelly (1970) chided the social and behavioral sciences for subscribing to what he described as “the epistemological assumption of accumulative fragmentalism, which is that truth is collected piece by piece” (p. 2). Scholarship in organizational communication assuredly has not been an exception in its implicit acceptance of this assumption (Dennis, Goldhaber, & Yates, 1978). Hence the effort of Allen, Gotcher, and Seibert to review refereed journal articles in the decade of the 1980s, while prodigious in scope, has the feel of a sightseeing tour rather than the synthesis that the authors had hoped to produce.
