Communication, organizing and organization: An overview and introduction to the special issue

• Main Authors: COOREN, Francois, KUHN, Timothy, CORNELISSEN, Joep P., CLARK, Timothy Adrian Robert
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2011
• Subjects: communicative constitution of organization; organizational communication; constitution; sensemaking; organizational identity; theories of the firm; strategy as practice; Business and Corporate Communications; Organizational Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/6271; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/lkcsb_research/article/7270/viewcontent/Communication_Org_2011_av.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

This paper provides an overview of previous work that has explored the processes and mechanisms by which communication constitutes organizing (as ongoing efforts at coordination and control of activity and knowledge) and organizations (as collective actors that are 'talked' into existence)...