The Routledge Handbook of the Communicative Constitution of Organization.

"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 system...

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Superior document:Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing Ser.
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Place / Publishing House:Milton : : Taylor & Francis Group,, 2022.
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Routledge Studies in Communication, Organization, and Organizing Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (585 pages)
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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.