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Chapter 23Communicative Constitution of Organizations


Theoretical considerations

Geneviève Boivin, Boris H. J. M. Brummans, and James R. Barker. “The Institutionalization of CCO Scholarship: Trends from 2000 to 2015,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), 2017, pp. 331–55.

Heather E. Canary, Maria Blevins, and Shireen S. Ghorbani, “Organizational Policy Communication Research: Challenges, Discoveries, and Future Directions,” Communication Reports, Vol. 28, 2015, pp. 48-64.

François Cooren, Frédérik Matte, Chantal Benoit-Barné, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans, “Communication as Ventriloquism: A Grounded-in-Action Approach to the Study of Organizational Tensions,” Communication Monographs, Vol. 80, 2013, pp. 255-277.

François Cooren, “Arguments for the In-Depth Study of Organizational Interactions: A Rejoinder to McPhee, Myers, and Trethewey,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 19, 2006, pp. 327-340.

Matthew A. Koschmann, Matthew G. Isbell, M. G., and Matthew L. Sanders, (2015). “Connecting Nonprofit and Communication Scholarship: A Review of Key Issues and a Meta-Theoretical Framework for Future Research,” Review of Communication, Vol. 15, 2015, pp. 200-220.

Timothy Kuhn, “Negotiating the Micro-Macro Divide: Thought Leadership from Organizational Communication for Theorizing Organization,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 26, 2012, pp. 543-584.

Robert D. McPhee. “Agency and the Four Flows.” Management Communication Quarterly 29 (3), 2015, pp.487–92.

Karen K. Myers, “Workplace Relationships and Membership Negotiation,” in New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research, Sandi W. Smith and Steven R. Wilson (eds.), Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2010, pp. 135-156.

Mike Reed, “Is Communication Constitutive of Organization?,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 151-157.

Elizabeth D. Wilhoit, “Organizational Space and Place Beyond Container or Construction: Exploring Workspace in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations,” Annals of the International Communication Association, Vol. 40, 2016, pp. 247-275.

Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson. “Where Is an Organization? How Workspaces Are Appropriated to Become (Partial and Temporary) Organizational Spaces,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 34 (3), 2020, pp. 299–327.

 

Applied examples of CCO

Oana Brindusa Albu and Michael Etter, “Hypertextuality and Social Media: A Study of the Constitutive and Paradoxical Implications of Organizational Twitter Use,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2016, pp. 5-31.

Kathryn Aten and Gail Fann Thomas, “Crowdsourcing Strategizing: Communication Technology Affordances and the Communicative Constitution of Organizational Strategy,” International Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 53, 2016, pp. 148-180.

Jacqueline S. Bruscella Ryan S. Bisel. “Four Flows Theory and Materiality: ISIL’s Use of Material Resources in Its Communicative Constitution,” Communication Monographs, Vol. 85 (3), 2018, pp. 331–56.

Pauline Hope Cheong, Jennie M. Hwang, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans, “Transnational Immanence: The Autopoietic Co-Constitution of a Chinese Spiritual Organization Through Mediated Communication,” Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 17, 2014, pp. 7-25.

Ziyun Fan, Christopher Grey, and Dan Kärreman. “Confidential Gossip and Organization Studies,” Organization Studies, Vol. 42 (10), 2021, pp. 1651–64.

Michal Izak, (2009). “Spirituality in Organization: A Dubious Idea (?): Historically Oriented Sensemaking in Spiritually Imbued Organizations,” Tamara Journal For Critical Organisation Inquiry, Vol. 8, 2009, pp. 73-88.

Irina M. Kopaneva, “Left in the Dust: Employee Constructions of Mission and Vision Ownership,” International Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 56 (1), 2019, pp. 122–45.

Joel O. Iverson and Robert D. McPhee, “Knowledge Management in Communities of Practice: Being True to the Character of Knowledge,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 16, 2002, pp. 259-266.

 

Karl Weick and the Information Systems Approach to Organizations

Stephen A. Leybourne, “Improvisation as a Way of Dealing with Ambiguity and Complexity,” Graziadio Business Report, 2010, Vol. 13, pp. 1-7.

Sally Maitlis and Scott Sonenshein, “Sensemaking in Crisis and Change: Inspiration and Insights from Weick (1988),” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 47, 2010, pp. 551-580.

Karl E. Weick, “Reflections on Enacted Sensemaking in the Bhopal Disaster,” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 47, 2010, pp. 537-550.

Andrea Whittle, Frank Mueller, Alan Gilchrist, and Peter Lenney. “Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation,” Organization Studies, Vol. 37 (9), 2016, pp. 1323–51.

 

Discussion of Organization Communication theory more generally

Jonny Holmström and Duane Truex, “Dropping Your Tools: Exploring When and How Theories Can Serve as Blinders in IS Research,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 28, 2011, pp. 283-294.

Robert D. McPhee and Pamela Zaug, “Organizational Theory, Organizational Communication, Organizational Knowledge, and Problematic Integration,” Journal of Communication, 51, 2001, pp. 574-591.

John A. A. Sillince, “Can CCO Theory Tell Us How Organizing is Distinct from Markets, Networking, Belonging to a Community, or Supporting a Social Movement?,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 132-138.



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Chapter 23Communicative Constitution of Organizations


Theoretical considerations

Geneviève Boivin, Boris H. J. M. Brummans, and James R. Barker. “The Institutionalization of CCO Scholarship: Trends from 2000 to 2015,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 31 (3), 2017, pp. 331–55.

Heather E. Canary, Maria Blevins, and Shireen S. Ghorbani, “Organizational Policy Communication Research: Challenges, Discoveries, and Future Directions,” Communication Reports, Vol. 28, 2015, pp. 48-64.

François Cooren, Frédérik Matte, Chantal Benoit-Barné, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans, “Communication as Ventriloquism: A Grounded-in-Action Approach to the Study of Organizational Tensions,” Communication Monographs, Vol. 80, 2013, pp. 255-277.

François Cooren, “Arguments for the In-Depth Study of Organizational Interactions: A Rejoinder to McPhee, Myers, and Trethewey,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 19, 2006, pp. 327-340.

Matthew A. Koschmann, Matthew G. Isbell, M. G., and Matthew L. Sanders, (2015). “Connecting Nonprofit and Communication Scholarship: A Review of Key Issues and a Meta-Theoretical Framework for Future Research,” Review of Communication, Vol. 15, 2015, pp. 200-220.

Timothy Kuhn, “Negotiating the Micro-Macro Divide: Thought Leadership from Organizational Communication for Theorizing Organization,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 26, 2012, pp. 543-584.

Robert D. McPhee. “Agency and the Four Flows.” Management Communication Quarterly 29 (3), 2015, pp.487–92.

Karen K. Myers, “Workplace Relationships and Membership Negotiation,” in New Directions in Interpersonal Communication Research, Sandi W. Smith and Steven R. Wilson (eds.), Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, 2010, pp. 135-156.

Mike Reed, “Is Communication Constitutive of Organization?,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 151-157.

Elizabeth D. Wilhoit, “Organizational Space and Place Beyond Container or Construction: Exploring Workspace in the Communicative Constitution of Organizations,” Annals of the International Communication Association, Vol. 40, 2016, pp. 247-275.

Elizabeth Wilhoit Larson. “Where Is an Organization? How Workspaces Are Appropriated to Become (Partial and Temporary) Organizational Spaces,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 34 (3), 2020, pp. 299–327.

 

Applied examples of CCO

Oana Brindusa Albu and Michael Etter, “Hypertextuality and Social Media: A Study of the Constitutive and Paradoxical Implications of Organizational Twitter Use,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 30, 2016, pp. 5-31.

Kathryn Aten and Gail Fann Thomas, “Crowdsourcing Strategizing: Communication Technology Affordances and the Communicative Constitution of Organizational Strategy,” International Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 53, 2016, pp. 148-180.

Jacqueline S. Bruscella Ryan S. Bisel. “Four Flows Theory and Materiality: ISIL’s Use of Material Resources in Its Communicative Constitution,” Communication Monographs, Vol. 85 (3), 2018, pp. 331–56.

Pauline Hope Cheong, Jennie M. Hwang, and Boris H. J. M. Brummans, “Transnational Immanence: The Autopoietic Co-Constitution of a Chinese Spiritual Organization Through Mediated Communication,” Information, Communication & Society, Vol. 17, 2014, pp. 7-25.

Ziyun Fan, Christopher Grey, and Dan Kärreman. “Confidential Gossip and Organization Studies,” Organization Studies, Vol. 42 (10), 2021, pp. 1651–64.

Michal Izak, (2009). “Spirituality in Organization: A Dubious Idea (?): Historically Oriented Sensemaking in Spiritually Imbued Organizations,” Tamara Journal For Critical Organisation Inquiry, Vol. 8, 2009, pp. 73-88.

Irina M. Kopaneva, “Left in the Dust: Employee Constructions of Mission and Vision Ownership,” International Journal of Business Communication, Vol. 56 (1), 2019, pp. 122–45.

Joel O. Iverson and Robert D. McPhee, “Knowledge Management in Communities of Practice: Being True to the Character of Knowledge,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 16, 2002, pp. 259-266.

 

Karl Weick and the Information Systems Approach to Organizations

Stephen A. Leybourne, “Improvisation as a Way of Dealing with Ambiguity and Complexity,” Graziadio Business Report, 2010, Vol. 13, pp. 1-7.

Sally Maitlis and Scott Sonenshein, “Sensemaking in Crisis and Change: Inspiration and Insights from Weick (1988),” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 47, 2010, pp. 551-580.

Karl E. Weick, “Reflections on Enacted Sensemaking in the Bhopal Disaster,” Journal of Management Studies, Vol. 47, 2010, pp. 537-550.

Andrea Whittle, Frank Mueller, Alan Gilchrist, and Peter Lenney. “Sensemaking, Sense-Censoring and Strategic Inaction: The Discursive Enactment of Power and Politics in a Multinational Corporation,” Organization Studies, Vol. 37 (9), 2016, pp. 1323–51.

 

Discussion of Organization Communication theory more generally

Jonny Holmström and Duane Truex, “Dropping Your Tools: Exploring When and How Theories Can Serve as Blinders in IS Research,” Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Vol. 28, 2011, pp. 283-294.

Robert D. McPhee and Pamela Zaug, “Organizational Theory, Organizational Communication, Organizational Knowledge, and Problematic Integration,” Journal of Communication, 51, 2001, pp. 574-591.

John A. A. Sillince, “Can CCO Theory Tell Us How Organizing is Distinct from Markets, Networking, Belonging to a Community, or Supporting a Social Movement?,” Management Communication Quarterly, Vol. 24, 2010, pp. 132-138.



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