The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization.

• Superior document: Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing Ser.
• Author: Basque, Joëlle.
• TeilnehmendeR: Bencherki, Nicolas.; Kuhn, Timothy.
• Place / Publishing House: Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.; ©2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing Ser.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (585 pages)

"This Handbook offers state of the art scholarship on the perspective known as the Communicative Constitution of Organizations (CCO). Offering a unique outlook on how communication accounts for the emergence, change, and continuity of organizations and organizing practices, this Handbook systematically exposes the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of CCO, displays its empirical diversity, and articulates its future trajectory. Placing communication firmly at the centre of the organizational equation, an international team of expert authors covers: The key theoretical inspirations and the main themes of the field The debates that animate the CCO community CCO's methodological approaches How CCO handles classic management themes Practical applications Offering a central statement of CCO's contributions to the fields of organization studies, communication, and management, this Handbook will be of interest to organization studies and communication scholars, faculty, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students, as well as anyone associated with CCO theorizing seeking a comprehensive overview of the theoretical, methodological, and practical tenets of this growing area"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Towards Intellectual Institutionalization -- Key Questions Animating CCO Scholarship -- An Expanded Ontological Question -- A Richer View of Agency -- (Dis)organization -- Current Conversations in the Community -- What Counts as a Meaningful Communication Event? -- Who (Or What) "Has" Agency and What Place to Give to Materiality? -- Future Trajectories: Ensuring the Practical and Academic Relevance of CCO -- Outline of the Handbook -- References -- Part I Theoretical Discussions -- 1 The Theoretical Roots of CCO -- Anthony Giddens's Structuration Theory as Theoretical Root of the Four-Flows Model -- Agent and Agency -- The Duality of Structure -- The Theoretical Roots of Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Self-Referential Communication Systems -- Husserl's Phenomenology -- Theory of Self-Referential Systems -- Spencer-Brown's Observation Theory -- The Theoretical Roots of the Montreal School -- Pragmatism -- Speech Act Theory -- Greimas's Narratology -- Harold Garfinkel's Ethnomethodology -- Actor Network Theory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 2 What's Pragmatic About Ambiguity in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations? The Case of CCO Scholarship's Establishment -- Ambiguity, Organizing, and Communication -- The Role of Pragmatic Ambiguity in Communicatively Establishing an Area of Research -- The Role of Pragmatic Ambiguity in Communicatively Establishing CCO Scholarship During the 2015 EGOS Conference -- The Pragmatic Use of Conceptual Ambiguities -- The Pragmatic Use of Ambiguities in Positioning the CCO Subtheme -- The Pragmatic Use of Ambiguities in Positioning Within CCO Schools -- Conclusion -- References.

3 Organization as Conversation and Text -- The Duality of Conversation and Text Explained -- The Materialization of Communication -- The Conversation-Text Dynamic and Its Mediating Processes -- Lamination and Imbrication -- Coorientation and Translation -- Current Methodologies and Research -- Methodologies Utilizing the Conversation-Text Dynamic -- Emergent Organization in Meetings and Observation -- Conversation-Text, a Generative Force -- Technology-as-Conversation-Text -- Conclusion and Future Directions -- Note -- References -- 4 Theorizing Communication and Constitution of Organizations From a Four Flows (Structurational) Perspective -- Theorizing Communication and Constitution From a Four Flows (Structurational) Perspective -- The Four Flows Model -- Structuration Theory -- Extending Structuration Into Constitution -- Constitutive Flows in TrumpU -- Flow 1: The Membership Negotiations of TrumpU -- Flow 2: The Reflexive Self-Structuring of TrumpU -- Flow 3: The Activity Coordination of TrumpU -- Flow 4: The Institutional Positioning of TrumpU -- Final Considerations -- Future Directions -- References -- 5 The Communicative Constitution of the World A Luhmannian View On Communication, Organizations, and Society -- Introduction -- The World as Communication -- The Emergence of Communication "in-Between" Human Beings -- Social Reality as Process -- Social Systems as Processual Entities -- Organizations as Systems of Decisions -- Society and Macro-Societal Domains as Systems of Communication -- Organizations and Societal Domains -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6 The Multiple Roles of Materiality When Communication Constitutes Organizations -- Introduction -- Four Perspectives On Materiality -- Materiality as Sensible Matter Mediating Human Interaction -- Materiality as the Relational Medium of Human Interaction.

Materiality as the Materialization of (Non-Human) Relations -- Materiality as the Performative Effects of Sociomaterial Practice -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 7 Disrupting CCO Thinking A Communicative Ontology of Dis/Organization -- Renderings of Dis/Organization in Organization and Management Studies -- CCO-based Inquiries of Dis/Organization as Communication -- Events -- Tensions, Paradoxes, and Contradictions -- Dis/ordering Devices -- Agency and Contingent Trajectories of Practice -- Struggles Over Meaning in Communicative Capitalism -- Toward a Research and Practical Agenda -- Moving Beyond Meaning Negotiation -- Strengthening Critical CCO Perspectives -- Problematizing Dualisms -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 The Communicative Constitution of Organizationality -- (1) What Is Organizationality? -- (2) Value-Added of a Communication-Centered View On Organizationality -- (3) Exemplary Cases of Organizationality-and Transversal Insights -- a. The Organizationality of Hacktivist Collectives: The Anonymous Case -- b. The Organizationality of Coworking Spaces: Betahaus in Berlin -- c. Comparative Analysis and Discussion -- (4) Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 9 The Communicative Constitution of Epistemic and Deontic Authority: Epistemological Implications of a Second-Order Construct -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Communication and the Micro-Macro Link -- 3. Knowledge, Status and the Communicative Constitution of Authority -- 4. Making Epistemics and Deontics Actionable Through Communication: The Contribution of LSI Studies -- 5. Epistemic and Deontic Authority in Organizational Communication: An Illustration -- 5.1. To Treat Or Not to Treat? Insights From Antibiotic Stewardship in a Hospital Ward -- 5.2. The Communicative Constitution of Epistemic and Deontic Authority: The Role of Interactional Competence.

6. For Whom Is Epistemic and Deontic Authority Communicatively Constituted? EDA as a Perspicuous Case of the Emic/Etic ... -- The Communicative Constitution of Organization and the Denaturalization of Social Order: Concluding Remarks -- Notes -- References -- 10 Uncritical Constitution CCO, Critique and Neoliberal Capitalism -- Introduction -- The Constitutive Approach to Communication: The Linguistic Turn and Pragmatism -- The Blind Spots of Pragmatism -- Critique and Organizational Communication -- Critique and Organizations -- The Ideological Content of Neoliberalism -- The Communicative Constitution of Neoliberalism -- Three Challenges -- Communication as a Relation -- Implications and Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 11 Queering CCO Scholarship: Examining Communication as Constitutive of (Hetero)normative Organizations and Organizing -- Queering CCO Scholarship: Examining Communication as Constitutive of (Hetero)Normative Organizations and Organizing -- Queer Theory -- Queering Organizational Research and CCO -- Queering Communication Flows -- Queering Text and Conversation -- Queering Ventriloqual Analysis -- Queering Organizational Space -- Conclusion and Future Directions -- Note -- References -- Part II Opening Up CCO's Methodological Approaches -- 12 The Umbrella of Discourse Analysis and Its Role in CCO -- The Umbrella of Discourse Analysis and Its Role in CCO -- What Is Discourse Analysis? -- Discourse and Discourse Analysis: Definitions and Delineations -- Similarities and Dissimilarities Between DA and Other Approaches -- Discourse and Ethnography -- Thematic Analysis -- Doing Discourse Analysis -- The Relationship of Discourse Analysis to CCO -- The Discursive Construction of Organizations -- (Some) Discursive Approaches for Understanding CCO Processes -- Speech Act Theory -- Conversation Analysis -- Narrative Analysis.

Ventriloquial Approach -- Post-Discourse: Departure Or Evolution? -- Addressing the Material -- Video Ethnography -- Concluding Reflections -- References -- 13 Acting in the Name of Others: How to Unpack Ventriloquations -- Introduction: Who Or What Is (Really) Talking and Acting? -- Ventriloquation-in-Action: Four Workings of in the Name of -- Methodological Application: Ventriloquism as an Instrument for CCO -- Phase 1: Identifying Ventriloquial Voices -- Phase 2: Grouping -- Phase 3: Relating -- Phase 4: Showing -- Ventriloquism Across CCO Schools -- Four Flows: Structuration Through Ventriloquation -- Luhmann: Autopoiesis and Decision Communication Through Ventriloquation -- Concluding Thought -- References -- 14 Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and the Constitutive Role of Organizational Talk -- Linking CCO and Ethnomethodology: Material Agency and Social Interaction -- Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis -- Doing Conversation Analysis -- Conversation Analysis and Constitutive Organizing -- Understanding Organizations Through Multimodal Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis -- Acknowledging Materiality, Talk and Bodily Gestures -- The Sequential Organization of Real-Time Interaction -- Notes -- References -- 15 Archives in CCO Research: A Relational View -- Introduction -- Perspectives to Archives -- Relational Ontology and Methodological Implications -- 1. Archives and Organizational Members in Naturally Occurring Settings -- 2. Archives and Organizational Members in Facilitated Settings -- 3. The Interconnections of Archives Through Time -- 4. Archives in Relations With Space -- 5. Archives in Relations With the Researcher -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- 16 Adventurous Ideas for Ethnographic Research On the Communicative Constitution of ORGANIZATIONS.

A Process Philosophy Perspective On the Communicative Constitution of Organizations.