Book Review: Building Theories of Organization: The Constitutive Role of Communication

Ashcraft Karen Lee Kuhn Timothy R. Cooren François (2009). Constitutional amendments: ‘Materializing’ organizational communication. Academy of Management Annals, 3(1), 1–64.

Bisel Ryan S. (2010). A communicative ontology of organization? A description, history, and critique of CCO theories for organization science. Management Communication Quarterly, 24(1), 124–131.

Cooren François Kuhn Timothy R. Cornelissen Joep P. Clark Timothy (2011). Communication, organizing, and organization: An overview and introduction to the special issue. Organization Studies 32(XXXX), XXXX [TO BE ADDED].

Giddens Anthony (1984). The constitution of society: Outline of the theory of structuration. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.

Luhmann Niklas (1995). Social systems. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.

McPhee Robert D. Zaug Pamela (2000). The communicative constitution of organizations: A framework for explanation. Electronic Journal of Communication, 10(1–2) (http://www.cios.org/www/ejcmain.htm).

Putnam Linda L. Nicotera Anne M. (2010). Communicative constitution of organization is a question: Critical issues for addressing it. Management Communication Quarterly, 24, 158–165.

Schoeneborn Dennis (forthcoming). Organization as communication: A Luhmannian perspective. Management Communication Quarterly.

Taylor James R. van Every Elizabeth (2000). The emergent organization: Communication as its site and surface. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.