Organization as Communication: Perspectives in Dialogue

Among the recent developments in organizational communication studies is a theoretical perspective that emphasizes the constitutive role of communication for organization and organizing: CCO. The edited volume features a wide range of articles that link the CCO perspective to European theory traditions (e. g., the works of Luhmann, Habermas, Honneth, or Cassirer and Mitterer), critically question how the concept of communication (and its constitutive capacities) can be set in relation to neighboring concepts, such as institutions, routines, leadership, and set the CCO perspective of emergent communication in contrast to perspective of strategic communication, agenda setting, and change.

The book brings these works into an intercontinental dialogue with some of the most prominent proponents of the CCO perspective, extending CCO beyond the Montreal School of scholars and the structuration theorists that have developed the notions of how communication constitutes organizations from particular theoretical leanings. Hence, the book offers an important contribution through broadening CCO perspectives and incorporating the work of leading European social theorists into this perspective of organizational communication.