ABSTRACT
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.
Foreword: The Emerging Paradigm of Communication Constitutes Organization (CCO); Introduction; Part I: Theoretical Discussions; 1. The Theoretical Roots of CCO; 2. What’s Pragmatic About Ambiguity in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations? The Case of CCO Scholarship’s Establishment; 3. Organization as Conversation and Text; 4. Theorizing Communication and Constitution of Organizations from a Four Flows (Structurational) Perspective; 5. The Communicative Constitution of the World: A Luhmannian View on Communication, Organizations, and Society; 6. The Multiple Roles of Materiality When Communication Constitutes Organizations; 7. Disrupting CCO Thinking: A Communicative Ontology of Dis/organization; 8. The Communicative Constitution of Organizationality; 9. The Communicative Constitution of Epistemic and Deontic Authority: Epistemological Implications of a Second Order Construct; 10. Uncritical Constitution: CCO, Critique and Neoliberal Capitalism; 11. Queering CCO Scholarship: Examining Communication as Constitutive of (Hetero)normative Organizations and Organizing; Part II: Opening Up CCO's Methodological Approaches; 12. The Umbrella of Discourse Analysis and Its Role in CCO; 13. Acting in the Name of Others: How to Unpack Ventriloquations; 14. Ethnomethodological Conversation Analysis and the Constitutive Role of Organizational Talk; 15. Archives in CCO Research: A Relational View; 16. Adventurous Ideas for Ethnographic Research on the Communicative Constitution of Organizations; Part III: How CCO Handles Classic Management Themes; 17. Authority According to CCO: Recursivity, Emergence, and Durability; 18. CCO Theory and Leadership; 19. Exploring Identity Matters in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations; 20. What’s in a Project? Extending Inquiries into Projects with a CCO Perspective; 21. Strategic Management and CCO: A Generative Nexus; 22. The Communicative Constitution of Corporate Social Responsibility; 23. The Blue Marble Effect: Globalization, Visibility and Lenticulation; 24. Voices, Bodies and Organizations: Bridging CCO Scholarship and Diversity Research; 25. Civil Society Collaboration and Inter-Organizational Relationships; 26. Digital Media: From Tools to Agents Making a Difference; 27. The Communicative Constitution of Organizational Memory; Part IV: What Difference Does CCO Make for Practice?; 28. CCO and the Academic-Professional Gap: Combining Rigor and Relevance in Organizational Communication; 29. Where Are the Organizations? Accounting for the Fluidity and Ambiguity of Organizing in the Arts; 30. CCO in Practice: Spacing and Humanitarian Organizing; 31. Constituting the Blue-collar Organization: How Social and Material Dimensions are Discursively Combined to (Re)construct the Factory; 32. Constituting Hazards and Action Through Communication: A CCO View of High Reliability Organizing; 33. The Theoretical Hitchhiker’s Guide to Sensemaking, Coorientation, and Status Asymmetry; Afterword: The Emergence of the Communicative Constitution of Organizations and the Montréal School: An Interview with James R. Taylor
